Journal of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, Volume 3Henry Barnard B. Cranston & Company, 1849 |
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... common schools in , I. 232 , Natural History , books on , III , 467 . Natural Philosophy , bonks on , III . 467 . Narragansett Indians , school for , I. 146 . Neatness , habits of , influenced by school house , III . 398 . New Hampshire ...
... common schools in , I. 232 , Natural History , books on , III , 467 . Natural Philosophy , bonks on , III . 467 . Narragansett Indians , school for , I. 146 . Neatness , habits of , influenced by school house , III . 398 . New Hampshire ...
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... common business operations , they neglect their schools , and other means of improvement . We should aim to awaken a livelier interest . The Rev. Mr. Vail of Westerly , not being able to attend , communi- cated a cheering account of the ...
... common business operations , they neglect their schools , and other means of improvement . We should aim to awaken a livelier interest . The Rev. Mr. Vail of Westerly , not being able to attend , communi- cated a cheering account of the ...
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... suggested topics and improved the whole tone of conversation , and brought people of widely differing sentiments and habits , to a common source of enjoyment . 11. As at once the source of most of the Remarks of Mr. Barnard . 21.
... suggested topics and improved the whole tone of conversation , and brought people of widely differing sentiments and habits , to a common source of enjoyment . 11. As at once the source of most of the Remarks of Mr. Barnard . 21.
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... common field , he would say , to all , teachers , school officers , and citizens , persevere in the measures which have thus far been adopted , and adopt others more ef- ficient . Act directly , and by all available means , on the ...
... common field , he would say , to all , teachers , school officers , and citizens , persevere in the measures which have thus far been adopted , and adopt others more ef- ficient . Act directly , and by all available means , on the ...
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... common English branches only , are taught . The interest among the pupils , colored as well as white , is healthy and inspiring . The sympathy and interest of the citizens in this movement is very great . Thus far the plan has succeeded ...
... common English branches only , are taught . The interest among the pupils , colored as well as white , is healthy and inspiring . The sympathy and interest of the citizens in this movement is very great . Thus far the plan has succeeded ...
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Page 440 - If any book shall be lost or injured, the person to whom it stands charged shall replace it by a new volume or set, if it belongs to a set...
Page 297 - Whatever progress one teacher may make in bringing order out of the chaotic elements of a large public school, is arrested by the termination of his school term. His experience is not available to his successor, who does not come into the school until after an interval of weeks or months, and in the mean time the former teacher has left the town or state. The new teacher is a stranger to the children and their parents, is unacquainted with the system pursued by his predecessor, and has himself but...
Page 439 - The President shall preside at all meetings of the Association and of the Board of Directors, and shall perform the duties usually devolving upon a presiding officer.
Page 145 - that one hundred acres should be laid forth and appropriated for a school, for encouragement of the. poorer sort to train up their youth in learning, and Mr. Robert Lenthal, while he continues to teach school, is to have the benefit thereof.
Page 93 - Every pupil who shall, accidentally or otherwise, injure any school property, whether fences, gates, trees or shrubs, or any building or any part thereof; or break any window glass, or injure or destroy any instrument, apparatus or furniture belonging to the school, shall be liable to pay all damages.
Page 329 - ... that are now making for. its evangelization. It is so colored, that all the principal religions of the world, with the countries in which they prevail, and their relation, position, and extent are distinguished at once, together with the principal stations of the various missionary societies in our own and other countries. It is so finished, being on cloth, that it may be easily folded' and conveyed from place to place, and suspended in any large room.
Page 448 - ... most distant ages, and that with as much ease as though they lived in our own age and nation. By reading of books we may learn something from all parts of mankind ; whereas by observation we learn all from ourselves, and only what comes within our own direct cognizance ; by conversation we can only enjoy the assistance of a very few persons, viz.
Page 299 - ... teacher may be selected with special reference to his ability in arranging the studies, and order of exercises of the school, in administering its discipline, in adapting moral instruction to individual scholars, and superintending the operations of each class-room, so as to secure the harmonious action and progress of every department. The talents and tact required for these and similar duties, are more rarely found than the skill and attainments required to teach successfully a particular study....
Page 449 - Led by this indication, he tried the effect of iodine on that complaint, and the result established the extraordinary fact that this singular substance, taken as a medicine, acts with the utmost promptitude and energy on goitre, dissipating the largest and most inveterate in a short time, and acting (of course with occasional failures, like all other medicines) as a specific or natural antagonist against that odious deformity.