Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Volumes 11-13

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Page 63 - ... dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 189 - We content ourselves with the statement that neither in our State policy, in our Constitution, or in our laws, do we find the primary school districts restricted in the branches of knowledge which their officers may cause to be taught, or the grade of instruction that may be given, if their voters consent in regular form to bear the expense and raise the taxes for the purpose.
Page ii - Lancelot and Elaine, and The Passing of Arthur; Browning's Cavalier Tunes, The Lost Leader, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, Evelyn Hope, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Home Thoughts from the Sea, Incident of the French Camp, The Boy and the Angel, One Word More, Herve Riel, Pheidippides.
Page xviii - Drill upon the rudiments of grammar, that is, upon the inflection of the articles, of such nouns as belong to the language of every-day life, of adjectives, pronouns, weak verbs and the more usual strong verbs ; also upon the use of the more common prepositions, the simpler uses of the modal auxiliaries, and the elementary rules of syntax and word -order.
Page xix - ... stories and plays; (2) accompanying practice, as before, in the - translation into German of easy variations upon the matter read and also in the off-hand reproduction, sometimes orally and sometimes in writing, of the substance of short and easy selected passages; (3) continued drill upon the rudiments of the grammar, directed to the ends of enabling the pupil, first, to use his knowledge with facility in the formation of sentences, and, secondly, to state his knowledge correctly in the technical...
Page i - De Quincey's Joan of Arc and The English Mail Coach; Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship; Emerson's Essays (selected) ; Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies. Group VI. (two to be selected). Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner; Scott's The Lady of the Lake; Byron's...
Page 42 - The agent of communication between the accredited schools and the Secretary of the Commission for the purpose of distributing, collecting and filing the annual reports of such schools, and for such other purposes as the Association may direct, is as follows: (a) In states having such an official, the inspector of schools appointed by the state university ; (b) in other states, the inspector of schools appointed by state authority, or, if there be no such official, such person or persons as the Secretary...
Page vi - Quadratic equations, both numerical and literal. Simple cases of equations with one or more unknown quantities, that can be solved by the methods of linear or Quadratic equations. Problems depending on quadratic equations.
Page ii - Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and the Passing of Arthur...

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