The West Virginia School Journal, Volume 21State Department of Free Schools, 1901 - Education |
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... young woman , who expresses herself emphatically by using the slang phrases of the day , who has lost that modest demeanor which is the charm of womanhood , who thinks it brilliant to make light of sacred things , is as great a menace ...
... young woman , who expresses herself emphatically by using the slang phrases of the day , who has lost that modest demeanor which is the charm of womanhood , who thinks it brilliant to make light of sacred things , is as great a menace ...
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... young men and women of purpose and character and I know those West Vir- ginia hills must prove themselves the very sinew of this nation as they an swer the call of their country by fur- nishing men and women of consecra- tion and ...
... young men and women of purpose and character and I know those West Vir- ginia hills must prove themselves the very sinew of this nation as they an swer the call of their country by fur- nishing men and women of consecra- tion and ...
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... young , ambitious , and enterprising . He did not shrink from learning the language of the country merely because the task was difficult . Now he enjoys the unique distinction of being one of the very few foreign- ers who can speak the ...
... young , ambitious , and enterprising . He did not shrink from learning the language of the country merely because the task was difficult . Now he enjoys the unique distinction of being one of the very few foreign- ers who can speak the ...
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... young man fresh from college taking it upon himself to die- tate to his father as to how his busi- ness should be managed . Such con- duct on the part of the young man would naturaly give his father a poor idea of college education . The ...
... young man fresh from college taking it upon himself to die- tate to his father as to how his busi- ness should be managed . Such con- duct on the part of the young man would naturaly give his father a poor idea of college education . The ...
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... young farmer cannot be intro- duced to nature too soon , and should never be long separated from her ob- ject - lessons . Suitable text - books de- signed to lead him by easy stages are still few and not well arranged . We live in an ...
... young farmer cannot be intro- duced to nature too soon , and should never be long separated from her ob- ject - lessons . Suitable text - books de- signed to lead him by easy stages are still few and not well arranged . We live in an ...
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Page 10 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 34 - Adhem (may his tribe increase! ) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" — The vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 23 - ... from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing ! And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, arose from the well.
Page 23 - That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.
Page 34 - The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, — And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest!
Page 41 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 21 - Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe.
Page 29 - In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality; His great fires up the chimney roared; The stranger feasted at his board; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — "Forever — never! Never — forever!
Page 43 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see everywhere.
Page 4 - ... is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring. But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies. Fallen cold and dead.