Word: children
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...foundation of the world. But the reality is not so bad as the sound; for although there is a wealth of allusions, there is little in the elasical literature of antiquity that bears importantly upon the subject. The Hebrew Scriptures abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four hundred shekels of silver of the cave of Machpelah. Job says, "Surely there is a vein for silver; the earth hath dust of gold." In the book of Daniel there is an account of the great image which Nebuchadnezzar set up on the plains of Dura, three score cubits...
...highly analogous to the building of the pyramids. It is impossible to conceive of the greatest of modern nations performing such a task. The motive would be utterly lacking. With the ancient rules the task was completely non-economic, except so far as that slaves must be fed and children trained to take their palces...
...Study of Children, by Principal E. H. Russell, State Normal School, Worcester, Mass...
...Brackett of the Children's Hospital, Boston...
...upper grade public schools, at each of which an address will be delivered by a student from one of the prominent colleges of the country. A member of the Union League Club will preside over each meeting. The object of the exercises is to encourage among the school children a patriotic interest in national affairs and history...