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... question ; but in American life the majority of women are dependent for support upon a husband or father whose financial situation is exceedingly uncertain . Death of one or the other often throws an intelligent woman into the world ...
... question ; but in American life the majority of women are dependent for support upon a husband or father whose financial situation is exceedingly uncertain . Death of one or the other often throws an intelligent woman into the world ...
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Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.). The earliest phase of the question of " sex " in education was suggested at the beginning of this paper ; it was repeatedly asserted by earnest , scholarly experts in education that women could ...
Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.). The earliest phase of the question of " sex " in education was suggested at the beginning of this paper ; it was repeatedly asserted by earnest , scholarly experts in education that women could ...
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... question how far this difference is to be taken into account in school and college . However , this is , after all , but part of the larger question - how far shall the college course become technical in its character : how far shall it ...
... question how far this difference is to be taken into account in school and college . However , this is , after all , but part of the larger question - how far shall the college course become technical in its character : how far shall it ...
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... question , for relative values must be of the first consideration in matters of learning . We can- not even define the object of education as one , for the aims of col- lege students are widely diverse . The instructor has to reckon not ...
... question , for relative values must be of the first consideration in matters of learning . We can- not even define the object of education as one , for the aims of col- lege students are widely diverse . The instructor has to reckon not ...
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... question what to study ; but a free elective system , with a year each of English , history , science , and psychology , with ethics , would perhaps meet the case even better . For the free elective system has this advantage over the ...
... question what to study ; but a free elective system , with a year each of English , history , science , and psychology , with ethics , would perhaps meet the case even better . For the free elective system has this advantage over the ...
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Page 5 - My native country! thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills, .Like that above.
Page 22 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 96 - Station, through the kindness of the " Association for Maintaining the American Women's Table at the Zoological Station at Naples and for Promoting Scientific Research by Women.
Page 71 - Each memoir must be accompanied by a sealed envelope enclosing the author's name and superscribed with a motto corresponding to one borne by the manuscript...
Page 71 - THE Association for Maintaining the American Women's Table at the Zoological Station at Naples and for Promoting Scientific Research by Women announces the offer of a third prize of 2ool.
Page 8 - I could not at all understand some of it, it delighted me beyond description ; and it produced what I have always considered a sort of birth of intellect. I read on till it was dark, without any thought about supper or bed.
Page 1 - They are a commercial people, whose point of view is primarily that of persons accustomed to reckon profit and loss. Their impulse is to apply a direct practical test to men and measures, to assume that the men who have got on fastest are the smartest men, and that a scheme which seems to pay well deserves to be supported.
Page 23 - That we recommend to the clubs a study of the science of education and of educational conditions existing in their home cities, to the end that the united influence of women's clubs may be exerted for the betterment of the state system of education from the kindergarten to the university.
Page 96 - ... papers or articles, or accounts of scientific investigations which she has carried out. The fellowship will not usually be granted to those who are intending to take up the practice of any of the three learned professions, though such are not formally excluded from the competition ; it will rather be bestowed upon those who are looking forward to positions as professors and teachers and to literary and scientific vocations. Preference will be given, other things being equal, to graduates of not...