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Page 133 - technical instruction " shall mean instruction in 'the principles of science and art applicable to industries, and in the application of special branches of science and art to specific industries or employments.
Page ii - COMMISSIONERS Henry Barnard, LL. D., March 14, 1867, to March 15, 1870 John Eaton, Ph. D., LL. D., March 16, 1870, to August 5, 1886 Nathaniel HR Dawson, LHD, August 6, 1886, to September 3, 1889 William T. Harris, Ph. D., LL. D., September 12, 1889, to June 80, 1906 Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Ph.
Page 473 - ... course, guided it with one hand, and with the other laid hard about him with a huge great oar, hoisted the sail, hied up along the mast by the shrouds, ran upon the edge of the decks, set the compass in order, tackled the bow-lines, and steered the helm. Coming out of the water, he ran furiously...
Page 474 - ... that you could not on a plain meadow have run with more assurance. They set up a great pole fixed upon two trees. There would he hang by his hands, and with them alone, his feet touching at nothing, would go back and fore along the aforesaid rope with so great swiftness, that hardly could one overtake him with running; and then, to exercise his breast and lungs, he would shout like all the devils in hell.
Page 101 - Yhe report of the committee of council on education ' in Scotland for the year ending September 30, 1892, gives the following particulars as to the schools under Government inspection.
Page 474 - He did pull down the great boughs and branches like another Milo; then with two sharp well-steeled daggers and two tried bodkins would he run up by the wall to the very top of a house like a rat ; then suddenly...
Page 495 - As to their studies, it would be well if they could be taught every thing that is useful, and everything that is ornamental; but art is long, and their time is short. It is therefore proposed that they learn those things that are likely to be most useful and most ornamental, regard being had to the several professions for which they are intended.
Page 471 - ... of the trunk, or, as it was called, between the four limbs, those impetuous conflicts often terminated in wounds and death. The church uttered her excommunications in vain against so wanton an exposure to peril ; but it was more easy for her to excite than to restrain that martial enthusiasm. Victory in a tournament was little less glorious, and perhaps at the moment more exquisitely felt, than in the field ; since no battle could assemble such witnesses of valor. " Honor to the sons of the brave...
Page 473 - Which, although at the beginning it seemed difficult, became a little after so sweet, so easy, and so delightful, that it seemed rather the recreation of a king than the study of a scholar.
Page 498 - That a corps of the military instructors should be formed to attend to the gymnastic and elementary part of education in every school in the United States, whilst the more scientific part of the art of war shall be communicated by professors of tactics, to be established in all the higher seminaries.