Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of BostonGeo. C. Rand & Avery, 1879 |
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Adams Alice Allston Annie Arithmetic Attendance Average better Board Boston Bowditch Boys Brighton High Brooks Adams Chairman Charles Charles H Charles Sumner Charlestown High course of study DISTRICT Dorchester High Dudley Boys Edward Elementary Elizabeth Ellen Emma English High exercises forms Fourth Frank Franklin Freehand Geography geometric George George W Girls give grade Grammar Schools History Horace Mann School hours a week James Janitor Jennie John language Latin School lessons Lieutenant Lizzie Margaret Mary Master Messrs mind Music Reader nature Nellie Normal School number of pupils object one-half hours Oral Instruction PRIMARY SCHOOLS Principal public schools reading Recitation Roxbury High School Salaries Sarah scholars School Committee School-house Second Asst Second Lieutenant South Boston Spelling street Sub-Master Supervisors taught teachers teaching text-books THIRD ASSISTANTS Thomas tion turning English Vocabulary and turning West Roxbury West Roxbury High whole Number William William H Writing ཎྜ
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Стр. 39 - Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Стр. 35 - But deep enough, alas! none ever mines. And we have been on many thousand lines, And we have shown, on each, spirit and power; But hardly have we, for one little hour, Been on our own line, have we been ourselves...
Стр. 33 - That multifarious reading weakens the mind more than doing nothing, for it becomes a necessity at last, like smoking, and is an excuse for the mind to lie dormant, whilst thought is poured in and runs through, a clear stream, over unproductive gravel, on which not even mosses grow. It is the idlest of all idlenesses, and leaves more of impotency than any other.
Стр. 47 - Long may these homely works devised of old, These simple efforts of Helvetian skill, Aid, with congenial influence, to uphold The State, the country's destiny to mould ; Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold ; Filling the soul with sentiments august, The beautiful, the brave, the holy, and the just ! No more.
Стр. 5 - What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap'd For truth to over-peer, — Rather than fool it so, Let the high office and the honour go To one that would do thus.
Стр. 25 - Boston by an intelligent and influential body of petitioners. The matter was referred to the school committee, who appointed a select committee to consider and report upon it. Their report adopted in the main the plan proposed by the petitioners, which was that a free industrial institute should be established, "consisting of a developing school and school shops, to be supported by the city, at least in part, and permanently ingrafted on our school system.
Стр. 4 - ... well-to-do population, but to give to the thousands of future workmen the sum of knowledge and aptitude which they need to increase the value of their labor, to get a larger price for their work, and finally to enrich and perfect national industry. " Viewed in this light, the problem has been marvellously well solved by Walter Smith.
Стр. 46 - Speaking to you, as to young men who can enter into what I say, I wish you to feel that you have another duty to perform, holding the situation -that you do in the school ; of the importance of this I wish you all to feel sensible, and of the enormous influence you possess, in ways in which we cannot, for good or for evil, on all below you; and I wish you to see fully how many and great are the opportunities offered to you here of doing good — good, too, of lasting benefit to yourselves as well...
Стр. 45 - When I have confidence in the Sixth," was the end of one of his farewell addresses, " there is no post in England which I would exchange for this ; but if they do not support me, I must go.
Стр. 25 - that the highest wisdom and the highest pleasure need not be costly or exclusive, but may be almost as cheap and as free as air,— and that the greatness of a nation must be measured, not by her wealth or her apparent power, but by the degree in which all her people have learnt to gather from the world of books, of Art, and of Nature, a pure and ennobling joy.