Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chief magistrates has been brought before the people twice within the last five years. Mr. Hoar's bill provides for certain exigencies in a way which his opponents declare to be opposed to the constitution. The bill is now a law and as such will be discussed. The great relief which the country experienced upon the settlement of so disputed a question is said by some to be a false security. The debate, while being upon one of the most interesting topics yet discussed in the Union, promises to be one of the most closely contested of the year...
...homes from the school room, and many other such practical ways. The teachers make tours with the pupils in the surrounding country, map in hand, and thus the meaning of the various geographical signs used on the maps is almost plastically impressed upon them. Such devices as making relief maps of sand and drawing charts of given districts are resorted to in no small measure. Gradually a wider view of the world's geography is given them, but without that ridiculous heaping of dry facts and statistics so common in our teaching. The brain is not loaded down with long...
Therefore, if, instead of modifying the marking, the examinations themselves were modified, a relief would be felt at once. If, instead of two long examinations a year, several short ones were given and their results averaged, I think a step would be taken in the right direction, for then the ground gone over would be less, and the labor of preparation decreased, which is the point at which we are aiming...
...lecturer's face and eyes, so that it is painful to read or speak from the platform. It is very disagreeable, too, for the audience to be compelled to watch the speaker in his struggle with the light. A drop-light could easily be furnished. It would give relief both to the lecturer and to his hearers...
...name "Alexander Alger," who has been in the dormitories soliciting alms, is an imposter. He is anxious to take in all the men and money that he can. A note from the general agent of the Boston Provident Association says that "he has been known for years to the relief-giving societies as an imposter...