Semi-centennial Anniversary. May 2, 1871English High School Association, 1871 - 112 من الصفحات |
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admission appointed Auld Lang Syne Babcock badges Bedford Street blessing Boylston Hall boys celebration Chairman character Charles Chief Marshal City Class-Marshal Committee of Arrangements Cumston CURTIS GUILD duties Edmands Emerson England English Classical School English High School escort establishment faithful Faneuil Hall French Language friends Gilmore's Band give Government graduates Grammar Schools greeted heart High School Association High School Battalion honor influence institution instruction interest John labor learning Lemuel Shaw life's memory mind MORIARTY Music Hall Natural Philosophy o'clock occasion Orator passed past and present past pupils Philosophy platform Poet President Prize Banner procession public schools Report Samuel Samuel H says scholars School Committee school discipline school-house seats secured Semi-Centennial Anniversary seminary spirit Sub-Committee success taught teachers teaching Thee Thomas Gaffield Thomas Sherwin thought tickets tion to-day town of Boston vote WILEY EDMANDS WILLIAM H youth
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 76 - The mode of education now adopted, and the branches of knowledge that are taught at our English grammar schools, are not sufficiently extensive nor otherwise calculated to bring the powers of the mind into operation nor to qualify a youth to fill usefully and respectably many of those stations, both public and private, in which he may be placed.
الصفحة 76 - A parent who wishes to give a child an education that shall fit him for active life, and shall serve as a foundation for eminence in his profession whether Mercantile or Mechanical, is under the necessity of giving him a different education from any which our public schools can now furnish.
الصفحة 104 - Second Class: Composition, Reading, Exercises in Criticism, Declamation; Algebra; Ancient and Modern History and Chronology; Logic; Geometry; Plane Trigonometry, and its application to mensuration of heights and distances; Navigation; Surveying; Mensuration of Surfaces and Solids; Forensic Discussions. Third Class: Composition; Exercises in Criticism; Declamation; Mathematics; Logic; History, particularly that of the United States; Natural Philosophy, including Astronomy; Moral and Political Philosophy.
الصفحة 21 - The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
الصفحة 72 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
الصفحة 103 - School, and submit the following as a general outline of a plan for its organization and of the course of studies to be pursued. — 1st. That the term of time for pursuing the course of studies proposed be three Years.
الصفحة 102 - ... the effect of excluding many children of the poor and unfortunate classes of the community from the benefits of a public education. The town saw and felt this inconsistency in the plan, and have removed the defect by providing schools, in which the children of the poor can be fitted for admission into the public seminaries, f " The present system, in the opinion of the Committee, requires still further amendment.
الصفحة 104 - Composition; reading from the most approved authors; exercises in criticism, comprising critical analyses of the language, grammar, and style of the best English authors, their errors and beauties; Declamation; Geography; Arithmetic continued.
الصفحة 30 - Let the light of thy gospel shine upon all nations ; and may as many as have received it live as becomes it. Be gracious unto thy church, and grant that every member of the same, in his vocation and ministry, may serve thee faithfully. Bless all in authority over us ; and so rule their hearts and strengthen their hands, that they may punish wickedness and vice, and maintain thy true religion and virtue. Send down thy blessings, temporal and spiritual, upon all our relations, friends, and neighbours.
الصفحة 92 - That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.