Word: children
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...country there is great need of public instruction fitted to perpetuate the spirit of American institutions. The spectacle of children of different races, creeds and social classes attending the same school, is too familiar to need notice, and the common school system of the United States stands acknowledged as one of the grandest achievements of civilization. Yet it seems in danger of being crowded out of existence by opposition from two sources, one positive in its antagonism, the other negative...
...increasing number of pupils entering Harvard from private schools. But not only are private schools becoming the "feeders" of colleges, they are, especially in large cities, performing the functions of primary and grammar schools. In some places it is not thought "good form," for a wealthy family to send children to a public school. Again, as in Cambridge, a hostile feeling displays itself in regulations which abolish recess to prevent mingling of pupils. This attitude of a portion of our people I have called negative opposition, because, while threatening no attack, it weakens the public school system by withdrawing...
...would be inert in the matter. The Catholic church has put the schools in this dilemma: schools that retain the shadow of religious instruction are denounced as sectarian, while those that leave it out are branded as godless. And to neither kind, the church declares, can it send its children; accordingly, at the late council in Baltimore, it ordered the erection of parochial schools throughout the country...
...productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep out of doors all the time. We ought to make ourselves stronger, that our children may be started in life with better health and stronger bodies...
...believe that they are not so intended, and that in the management of them Harvard should have first consideration, and Cambridge second. If the seats were reserved for members of the university till within a few minutes of the time for the lecture to begin, the men, women and children of Cambridge would quickly learn that it would not pay them to wait a quarter or half an hour before closed doors in order to get the best seats in the hall. Where Harvard is quite capable of crowding her lecture halls, the aid of Cambridge is certainly unnecessary...