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... secure a college education . What that specialty shall be depends , ( 1 ) upon the personal bent of the individual , ( 2 ) upon the future possibility of marriage , ( 3 ) upon the future necessity of self - support . If teach- ing be ...
... secure a college education . What that specialty shall be depends , ( 1 ) upon the personal bent of the individual , ( 2 ) upon the future possibility of marriage , ( 3 ) upon the future necessity of self - support . If teach- ing be ...
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... secure only the few . The other plan is , that the several departments related to housekeeping should enlarge their scope so as to include in their present courses what women need . The principles of chemistry might be as well applied ...
... secure only the few . The other plan is , that the several departments related to housekeeping should enlarge their scope so as to include in their present courses what women need . The principles of chemistry might be as well applied ...
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... secure the proper balance between general and special studies , that will be best which shall develop most economically and effectively independence , thoroughness , originality , judgment , the vital elements of scholarly and humane ...
... secure the proper balance between general and special studies , that will be best which shall develop most economically and effectively independence , thoroughness , originality , judgment , the vital elements of scholarly and humane ...
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... secure a certain amount of breadth . But the troublesome question is : What ought the college to do for the rank and file of students ? In general , the college should give enrichment of life through larger knowledge , increase of power ...
... secure a certain amount of breadth . But the troublesome question is : What ought the college to do for the rank and file of students ? In general , the college should give enrichment of life through larger knowledge , increase of power ...
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... secure this result ? the answer is not easy . A great deal is said about the educational values of different studies ; this trains observation , that develops the reasoning powers ; this quickens thought , that strengthens memory . But ...
... secure this result ? the answer is not easy . A great deal is said about the educational values of different studies ; this trains observation , that develops the reasoning powers ; this quickens thought , that strengthens memory . But ...
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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...