Word: children
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Imagine the 8,000,000 of children actually in attendance at the elementary schools of the country brought before your view. Each unit of that mass speaks of a glad birth, a brightened home, a mother's pondering heart, a father's careful joy. In all that multitude every little heart bounds and every eye shines at the name of Washington...
...girls and boys in the secondary schools are getting a fuller view of this incomparable character than the younger children can reach. They learn of his great part in that immortal federal convention of 1787, of his inestimable services in organizing and conducting through two presidential terms the new government-services of which he alone was capable, and of his firm resistance to misguided popular clamor. They seehim ultimately vietorious in war and successful in peace but only through much adversity and over many obstacles...
...little variety. For them Dr. Vicery announces a special clinic at the Mass. Gen. Hospital, Dr, Garland commences a parallel course in dispensary work, and Dr. Putnam begins a series of Monday lectures on Nervous Diseases and their treatment. Dr. Rotch has finished his course on Diseases of Children and the clinical work at the Insom Hospital is also over...
...part to recite again and again to the eager listeners the story of Achilles, Ajax, or Odysseus. In this way the people in every part of Greece became familiar with the great poems which were finally transcribed and carefully handed down from generation to generation. In the schools children had to learn the poems by heart, not for the intellectual good which would result from this practice, but to gain an idea of the moral truths which Homer propounded, and to learn from the lives of his heroes what was the way of life which it should be their duty...
...rank in college, his subsequent career, and if the man is dead, the place of his death, and the name and address of a near relative. It also states his honors and degrees, if any, and if the man has married, when, where, and to whom, number of children and their names. In the account of his career after leaving college, mention is made of any literary work he may have done, the extent of his travels and his present address...