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Page 150 - STILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning ; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry- vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial ; The charcoal...
Page 77 - To bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the training of the child...
Page 74 - To bring farming up to the standard of other industries and business enterprises. To secure and maintain profitable and uniform prices for cotton, grain, livestock and other products of the farm. To strive for harmony and good will among all mankind and brotherly love among ourselves. To...
Page 269 - Storage of crops — Model barns — Silos — Estimates of yields — Determination of weights of bushels of grain. 2. Fall preparation of soil — Implements used and problems on cost of plowing, etc. 3. Fall pruning — Practice on neglected trees — Cover crops. Garden work. — Taking cuttings and plants from garden for school or home windows or wintering over — Planting bulbs in school border or forcing for winter bloom — Fall preparation of school garden, cleaning, manuring, and plowing....
Page i - Foght, Harold Waldstein. The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects. New York, The Macmillan company, 1917. xii, 359 p. illus. 12°. Written as a companion volume to the author's The American rural school, which was first published some five years ago.
Page 302 - Ventilation by open windows when weather permits and by opening of windows at frequent intervals even in winter. 2. Lighting from left side of room (or from left and rear) through window space at least one-fifth of floor space in area. 3. Cleanliness of school as good as in the home of a careful housekeeper. 4. Furniture sanitary...
Page 210 - Among these were not only illiterate farmers and their illiterate wives, sons, and daughters, but also illiterate merchants or "storekeepers," illiterate ministers, and illiterate lumbermen. Mothers, bent with age, came that they might learn to read letters from absent sons and daughters, and that they might learn for the first time to write to them.
Page 265 - In making these statements we have in mind that the common schools do not teach trades and professions. We do not approach the subject primarily from an occupational point of view, but from the educational and spiritual ; that is, the man should know his work and his environment. The mere giving of information about agricultural objects and practices can have very little good result with children. The spirit is worth more than the letter. Some of the hard and dry tracts on farming would only add...
Page 210 - ... were enrolled the first evening. They came trooping over the hills and out of the hollows, some to add to the meager education received in the inadequate schools of their childhood, some to receive their first lessons in reading and writing. Among them...
Page 349 - Fiske, George Walter. The challenge of the country. A study of country life opportunity. New York, London, Association press, 1912. xiii, 283 p. illus. 12°. CONTENTS: 1. The rural problem. 2. Country life optimism. 3. The new rural civilization. 4. Triumphs of scientific agriculture.