The School Journal, Volume 67

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1903 - Education

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Page 51 - Blowing over the meadows brown. And one was safe and asleep in his bed, Who at the bridge would be first to fall, Who that day would be lying dead, Pierced by a British musket-ball.
Page 34 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 364 - My angel — his name is Freedom — Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west And fend you with his wing.
Page 251 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Page 231 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 363 - Bear gently, Ocean's carrier-dove, Thy errands to and fro. Weave on, swift shuttle of the Lord, Beneath the deep so far, The bridal robe of earth's accord, The funeral shroud of war ! For lo ! the fall of Ocean's wall Space mocked and time outrun ; And round the world the thought of all Is as the thought of one ! The poles unite, the zones agree, The tongues of striving cease ; As on the Sea of Galilee The Christ is whispering, Peace ! " Glad prophecy ! to this at last," The Reader said, "shall all...
Page 32 - That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the word of life...
Page 78 - The imagination is the greatest of human powers, no matter in what field it works — in art or literature, in mechanical invention, in science, government, commerce, or religion; and the training of the imagination is, therefore, far the most important part of education. I use the term "constructive imagination" because that implies the creation or building of a new thing.
Page 77 - The next great element in cultivation to which I ask your attention is acquaintance with some parts of the store of knowledge which humanity in its progress from barbarism has acquired and laid up. This is the prodigious store of recorded, rationalized, and systematized discoveries, experiences, and ideas. This is the store which we teachers try to pass on to the rising generation. The capacity...
Page 151 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man...

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