Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evening Walk"; a manuscript, "The Stone-pine of Monte Mario at Rome"; and a "Prelude," which-belonged to Lock-hart, the biographer of Scott. The prize book of the collection is, however, "An Account of the Books Lent out of the Library at Rydale Mount" in the original sheep, in the autograph of William Wordsworth and of Dorothy Wordsworth. In this account are entered the names of de Quincey, Dr. Arnold, and others, as having borrowed books...
...Abbott believes the two greatest difficulties are the "bugbear of college entrance requirements," and the failure of modern schools to realize that the "schoolboy of today is entirely a different being than the schoolboy of fifty years ago." He recommends the example of England in separating the intellectual sheep from the goats and paying especial attention to the scholars of promise...