Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"The amount of time now expended upon the study of arithmetic in the schools appears to be nearly 4 1-2 hours a week, or almost exactly one-fifth of the entire school time, are devoted to the study of arithmetic, on the average, during the nine years of school...
At the present time the results in accuracy, if not in facility, of arithmetical work leave very much to be desired. Scarcely has the child been taught to count as high as 10, when he is put at technical applications of arithmetic, to money coins, to divisions of time, space...
The vice-principal and chaplain of the Institute spoke interestingly on the purpose and result of the course of training employed at the Hampton Institute. The first thing that is impressed on the mind of the student is that manual labor is honorable. Yet in spite of the time spent...
The men who have been trying for places on the nine have not been put through such a vigorous course of daily exercise this year as has characterized the work of the candidates for past nines. It is still an open question if very strict training is of such great...
The evening session of the convention was devoted to the making out of a schedule, which proved a laborious piece of work. Before adjourning at midnight the following arrangement had been adopted: