Word: minding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Newton street, Boston. On January 25 and 26, beginning at 9 o'clock, examinations for the following certificates will be held: 1. Elementary School Master's Certificate; 2. Elementary School Certificate, Class A; 3. Elementary School Certificate, Class B; 4. Kindergarten Certificate; 5. Special Certificate for Teachers of Feeble-Mind ed Children; 6. Special Certificate in Woodworking; 7. Special Certificate in Sewing; 8. Special Certificate in Cookery...
...with his subject and, at times, his genuine warmth, make his work promising. His extracts from Sill's poetry are less impressive than he means them to be. "The Fool's Prayer," striking as it is, contains more truth than poetry, and would scarcely stick in the reader's mind except for the brilliant perversion at the end,--"O, Lord...
...speaker frankly admitted that in spite of all arguments, immortality was, after all, a hope. And yet, he said, it is a hope which reason compels our mind to adopt. Predominant over all matter we find that curious, spiritual thing called personality. Love, dreams of power, music, intellectual activities-abstract qualities which one cannot buy, see, not touch-all denote that we move in a spiritual realm. If these personal qualities-which distinguish man from animals-are spiritual, and therefore immortal, why should not persons be? To one who considers all the great minds and intellectual geniuses which the world...
...allusively that it must remain elusive for most readers. When, too, the end is reached, the real content of the story seems so slight that one wonders why one should try to penetrate the mist of allusion thrown around it. "Sketchy" is the word that comes inevitably to mind as one reads these stories, even though there be in them good characterization and some telling phrase. Good touches like this in "A Committee of Three" are frequent. The writer says of a three cornered conversation: "Two is company, but three is a difficult peculiarity. In order for a group...
...gather, he said, to commemorate the resolute and faithful men, who fought and fell in the Civil War to preserve American nationality and American free institutions. They freed the negro slave. His complete emancipation, however, the freedom of his mind and soul as well as his body can be secured only through education. It is the opportunity and the privilege of the nation to grant him this. The vast number of illiterate negroes in the South proves that the nation is not doing this adequately...