Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gersdorff, Gibson, Gleason, Goodhue, Gooding, Gordon, Graham. Mr. Tupper will also have time to photograph any other members of the class who can come to the studio this week, and all such are asked to do so, as it will save much time and trouble to get this matter finished at once...
...Gersdorff, Gibson, Gleason, Goodhur, Gooding, Gordon, Graham. Mr. Tupper will also have time to photograph any other members of the class who can come to the studio this week, and all such are asked to do so, as it will save much time and trouble to get this matter finished at once...
...Gersdorff, Gibson, Gleason, Goodhue, Gooding, Gordon, Graham. Mr. Tupper will also have time to photograph any other members of the class who can come to the studio this week, and all such are asked to do so, as it will save much time and trouble to get this matter finished at once...
...fiction whose works an American boy should read? Is there nothing in American literature that should command his attention? Is it your purpose to teach him that Hawthorne, Irving, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson and Lowell are of minor consequence in comparison with Goldsmith and Scott? Shakespeare is a matter of course, and Milton ought to be, though your examination papers do not indicate that you so regard him; but, after those two, is there any English writer with whose works it is more important for an American boy to be familiar than it is for him to know something...
...matter of fact, there are very few schools in the country where boys are taught the literature of America. This is a crying evil and should be remedied. The question is how to do it? The editorial quoted suggests the remedy. It lies with the colleges, not with the schools, for the latter shape their curriculum according to the requirements for admission to college. Let us require, then, in our entrance examinations a knowledge of one or two of the principal American authors. The schools cannot help following our lead in this matter, and it may be the means...