The Iowa Normal Monthly, Volumen2

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1879
 

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Página 215 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Página 319 - I see the wrong that round me lies, I feel the guilt within ; I hear, with groan and travail-cries, The world confess its sin.
Página 78 - To direct the sale or other disposition to be made of any school house, or the site thereof, and of such other property, real or personal, as may belong to the district; and to direct the manner in which the proceeds arising therefrom shall be applied.
Página 253 - Regular meetings are to be held each month without notice, and special meetings may be held at the call of the president or of one third of the members, with two days' notice by mail or one day's notice by telegram.
Página 273 - Even as mere languages, no modern European language is so valuable a discipline to the intellect as those of Greece and Borne, on account of their regular and complicated structure. Consider for a moment what grammar is. It is the most elementary part of logic. It is the beginning of the analysis of the thinking process. The principles and rules of grammar are the means by which the forms of language are made to correspond...
Página 283 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 400 - Government, he thus speaks of the American high school: " In other countries it is to be feared that the children of different classes of society, although they may be brought together for a time in the public school, will very soon be found separated as widely as are their families in the social scale. In America everything is done to retard and reduce the degree of that separation, by carrying as far and as high as possible that common instruction which effaces all distinction between the rich...
Página 214 - The England and the America of the present are probably the two strongest nations of the world. But there can hardly be a doubt, as between the America and the England of the future, that the daughter, at some no very distant time, will, whether fairer or less fair, be unquestionably yet stronger than the mother.
Página 299 - ... one is disheartened, Mrs. Dumont went out of her way to praise the first show of success in a slow scholar. She treated no two alike. She was full of all sorts of knack and tact, a person of infinite resource for calling out the human spirit. She could be incredibly severe when it was needful, and no overgrown boy whose meanness had once been analyzed by Mrs. Dumont ever forgot it. I remember one boy with whom she had taken some pains. One day he wrote an insulting word about one of the girls...
Página 184 - to employ none but the most sober, regular young men I can get. Evil...

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