Word: children
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quick in using the tools of the box maker. There are a number who wish places in counting-rooms, banks, offices, or as salesmen in branch stores at popular seashore resorts. The most numerous body are applicants for positions as tutors, either of boys fitting for college or of children whose parents wish them to learn to love science by intelligent observation of nature...
...George's Church, New York. The text chosen was taken from the eleventh chapter of Deuteronomy, the tenth, eleventh and twelfth verses, and the sermon was clear, eloquent and comprehensive. In the course of his remarks, Dr. Rainsford said that the lesson that God was teaching the children of Israel was one that all nations should learn, and God has been continually trying to teach this same lesson to the different peoples of the world. The land to which the Jews were going was not like Egypt, where the Nile supplied the place of the toiling husbandman; but a land...
...thrown overboard. But there still remains many things, as taught in our schools, which occupy time which could better be devoted to the study of other subjects; or at least, to a greater degree of practice in simple operations. Who of us has not seen, in the hands of children of 11, 12 and 13 years of age, examples in "compound and complex fractions" which were more difficult than any operation which any bank cashier in the city of Boston has occasion to perform, in the course of his business, from January to December? The most jagged fractions, such...
...system of exercises, especially adapted to the needs of school children, will be introduced for the first time...
...only means of getting back their country from the Whites. When they saw the hopelessness of their task, they were won over by the specious promises of the white men to care for and feed them. Now they are becoming more civilized and like to see their children enjoying the advantages of that education which is denied themselves on account of their age. The Apaches are more cruel and relentless towards those who fall into their power, more skillful in fashioning and carrying out their plots, and more expert in covering their tracks than the majority of their brothers...