Word: knowes
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...work which the grammar schools had failed to perform. The academies demonstrated, at the same time, the possibility of a secondary education adapted to the special needs and briefer educational careers of non-collegiate pupils of both sexes. Thus the enthusiastic support of our public high schools as we know them today was ultimately brought about during the years from 1826 to the present time. Although this country, through the state of Massachusetts, was very early committed to the maintenance of secondary schools supported partly or wholly by taxes, it took nearly two hundred years before the new conception...
...individual home and the community will not give moral or financial aid to the school--will not co-operate with the school unless they believe in it. Hence the necessity for conference between the homes and the school that the school may know and clearly understand the desires of the home in other than merely formal ways, and that the home may similarly understand and appreciate the difficulties and the efficacy of the school, as well as its short comings; and in order that each may recognize its own share of responsibility for the results actually achieved...
...world has been much changed by scientific developments in recent times. The old idea that the world and all its living tenants were suddenly created is is giving way to the conviction that men of every age are a part of a vast, orderly development of which none know the beginning...
...taking advantage of Pennsylvania's misplays. The only fault in his playing was his occasional failure to break up the interference which carried Hare around his end Sawin was another player who attracted attention by brilliant work. He followed his interference as far as was practicable and seemed to know just when it was advisable to leave it. His running was fast and heady, and made him the greatest ground gainer of the day. Captain Daly was more effective than usual in spite of two misplays. Through his judgment Harvard's attack was distributed in such...
...been tested much more thoroughly than could have been done in ordinary practice. It will make the cage-work in the spring much more valuable, for the coaches have already guaged to some extent the ability of many of the candidates who will then come out. The coaches know the weak points of the men, and which of them, with special coaching, will make University material. By taking the Freshmen who come out as a criterion, they can also judge to some extent the ability of next year's Freshman team. Several of the Freshmen will be taken temporarily...