Official Report: Including a Record of the National ConventionAmerican Association of School Administrators., 1902 |
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Page 44 - to conceive the Infinite rather than our positive comprehension of it. Hamilton says: I lay it down as a law which, though not generalized by philosophers, can be easily proved to be true by its application to the phenomena: that all that is conceivable in thought lies between two extremes which, as contradictory of each other, cannot
Page 67 - of a house then occupied by my father, I am able to date it before the seventh year of my age The " pastures green" were represented by a certain suburban stubble field, where I had once walked with my nurse, under an autumnal sunset Here, in the fleecy person of
Page 104 - the light caused by adjacent buildings or dense trees. In such cases " factory-ribbed " glass should be used to improve the transmission and dissemination of the light. By this arrangement, moreover, no desk need be farther from the window than one and one-half times the height of the top of the window from the floor
Page 67 - will never tell you how — that the presence of these articles afforded me encouragement In this string of pictures I believe the gist of the psalm to have consisted; I believe it had no more to say to me ; and the result was consolatory. I would go to sleep dwelling with
Page 26 - these, arithmetic may be omitted as a separate study thruout the first year of school, on the ground that there is no need of it, if the number incidentally called for in other work is properly attended to. 2. In geography the following subject-matter might well go: All explanation of the cause of
Page 148 - presence of General Lee. Quaint old Thomas Fuller said: "Almost twenty years since I heard a profane jest and still remember it. How many pious passages of far later date I have forgotten! It seems my soul is like a filthy pond, wherein the fish soon die and the frogs live long.
Page 63 - superintendent of education. And he who has the greatest number of votes, after he has undergone a scrutiny at the hands of all the magistrates who have been his electors, with the exception of the guardians of the law, shall hold office for five years; and in the sixth year let another be chosen in like manner to fill his office.
Page 6 - the department; also providing that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to deprive in any way those who are at present active members of this department from taking part or participating in and sharing fully the duties, responsibilities, and privileges of such membership, ARTICLE
Page 29 - An examination may test one's accuracy, the fullness of one's memory, and one's power of concentration. As Latham says, in his classical book on Examinations: Behind these qualities lies something which a mental physiologist would call massiveness or robustness of brain, or which we