Word: pupills
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school methods is mainly fostered and promoted by the fact that the teachers in preparatory schools are generally college graduates, and so bring with them the college methods. The speaker believed that there ought to be a difference between the quality and quantity of studies for those high school pupils whose education is to end in these institutions and those who are to enter the preparatory schools and colleges. A boy who could go no further than the high school ought in the higher classes of that school to be taught classical and modern languages, for instance, in a somewhat...
...Warren, formerly a special student at Harvard, and a pupil of Mr. Moore of the Fine Arts Department, has on exhibition at Chase's gallery, Hamilton Place, Boston, a fine collection of paintings, and watercolors...
...open to inspection. This is already partially furnished, under the direction of Dr. Sargent of Cambridge, whose system is to be carried out by Miss Ransom, a graduate of his class for teachers. The physical exercises will form a part of the regular curriculum, being arranged for each pupil by measurement and tests of strength, and required as much as attendance at recitations...
...foot of his class, and had come from the back woods. Mr. Nicholas Emery who was than an assistant tutor in the academy-was made acquainted with young Webster's troubles, and as he had the management of the second or lower class, he treated his despondent pupil with marked kindness, and particularly urged him to think of nothing but his books and all would yet came out well. The advice was heeded, and at the end of the first quarter Mr. Emery mustered his class in line and formally taking young Webster's arm marched him from the foot...
Webster afterwards became the pupil of Dr. Samuel Woods, a prominent clergyman of the day, who lived in Boscawen, and prepared boys for college at one dollar a week, for tuition and board. During his stay with Dr. Woods, he was very neglectful of his academic duties, and on one occasion, when he was told for some misdemeanor to learn a hundred lines of Virgil, he gained a reward of a day to be given up to pigeon shooting by committing a whole book of the AEneid...