Word: children
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Schools." He set forth the duties of the principal and of the superintendent. The principal, be said, must be able to judge the teachers under him and also the pupils. He ought to know all the pupils so well that he could advise their parents whether or not, their children should be sent to higher schools. Furthermore, he should be in touch with all teachers and make it a special point to lead them to think for themselves and to study the books of the day that treat of their profession. The superintendent, on the other hand, is the final...
...carried him to Ireland and here he was forced to pass most of his time, away from the London that he loved. Queen Elizabeth granted him a large estate near Cock, but he was never popular there and was eventually driven out. His castle was burned and one his children (for he had married an Irish wife) perished in the flames. His own death followed soon, on January 16, 1599. He was carried to Westminster...
...himself like a Harvard gentleman. This all important principle was thrown aside yesterday in a way that is more than likely to do a great deal of harm to the University. The men who made such a disgraceful spectacle of themselves in Memorial Hall yesterday besides behaving worse than children did one of those things which in itself casts a slur upon the Harvard character and which with all of the necessary exaggerations added is sure to do so much harm to the college abroad. If men are not well bred enough to treat visitors as they should be treated...
Will you allow me to call attention in your columns to the Home Libraries of the Children's Aid Society? The plan of work is as follows: Twenty volumes of good story books are placed in the home of some poor child, who acts as a librarian; nine other children belong to the group, and meet once a week at a given hour to change their books. At this time a visitor meets them, oversees the library-work, and plays games with, or reads to the children for an hour or so. Several students have acted as visitors this winter...
Prof. Goodale advocated the teaching of botany to children and defined clearly the parts of the subject which he thought within their grasp. They may study the outward form and more or less of the inward, cell structure of plants; the underlying idea, the vegetal morphology, may also be discovered by them. The child, however, cannot be expected to understand the classification of plants into families, their knowledge must be general, not specific...