What was to be taught in them was seldom mentioned in the foundation articles, as it was assumed that every one knew what a grammar school was, so well by this time had the humanistic type become established.
The kindergarten will always do best among self-governing peoples, andseldom meets with favor from autocratic power.
In a mannerseldom witnessed in the world's educational history, the Greeks used their religion, literature, government, and the natural activities of young men to impart an education of wonderful effectiveness.
For the first fifty years of Harvard's history the attendance at the college seldom exceeded twenty, and the President did all the teaching.
The two types seldomagree as to means, and usually part company.
Reckoning schools were to meet direct commercial needs in the cities, and were seldom found outside of commercial towns.
Outside of the New England colonies, the appeal to the State as the servant of the Church was seldom made during the early colonial period, the churches handling the educational problem in their own way.
For the first fifty years at Harvard this continued to be true, the attendance during that time seldom exceeding twenty.
The monasteries, too, wereseldom established in towns.
Birds are seldom found in the deep forest; but, at the hours mentioned, trees and bushes skirting roads, fields and meadows, will be found teeming with life.
A very good call, which seldom fails in bringing the bird from its retreat, is made by placing the back of the hand to the lips and sucking.
I seldom forget a person I once knew, and she has often bought fish of me in days gone by.
He so seldom takes a holiday; but for this once he may be tempted to go and see the fun," she thought.
Thus a couple of years passed by, Dame Lanreath and Nelly setting out day after day to sell the fish or lobsters and crabs he caught, for which they seldom failed to obtain a good price.
Her fancies, as yet, were not very expensive, and seldom rose above a dainty ribbon or a coquettish pair of bronze slippers.
This is something which seldomhappens to it in artistic matters, but now, for a whole week it talked nothing but de Sterny: of his octave playing a little, and of his love affairs a great deal.
Sallying forth with it at these times, far into the country, I seldom returned at night without a string of bullfinches, blackbirds, and linnets hanging in triumph round my neck.
Meanwhile I had become a daring cragsman, a character to which an English lad has seldom opportunities of aspiring; for in England there are neither crags nor mountains.
A round of beef, at any rate such a round of beef as this, is seldomseen smoking upon the table in these degenerate times.
Though servants are seldom admirers of their masters, I was a great admirer of mine, and eager to follow his example.
I had no horses to ride, but I took pleasure in looking at them; and I had already attended more than one of these fairs: the present was lively enough, indeed horse fairs are seldom dull.
At any rate, they seldom approved of what their masters did.
I speak as a fowler) seldom lasts in England more than three or four months; so, during the rest of the year, when not occupied with my philological studies, I had to seek for other diversions.
He had strange wandering eyes, gray, and somewhat unequal in size; they seldom rested on the book, but were generally wandering about the room, from one object to another.
The circle being complete by this time, the young orator was placed in the midst, and began to read aloud his manuscript, or rather to recite it, for after the fire of his subject began to animate him, he seldomlooked at the paper.
She sent me away, but would not go herself; and I heard afterwards that the Duke sat very still, seldom speaking.
One reason why she had so seldom written was that she knew she could not spell, and Mademoiselle insisted on looking over her letters that they might not be a disgrace.
Had neither the grace nor the vivacity that would have enabled me to collect a society around me, and I seldom saw his brother officers except my brother M.
On they went, day and night, avoiding towns and villages, and seldom halting except in the fields.
This wasseldom done by violence, but by giving them employment in the Army and Court, attaching them to the person of the King, and giving them offices with pensions attached to them.
It seldom becomes a tree but it bears a fruit which is sweet but very astringent and is dark purple when ripe.
THE sweet or red gum is a very common tree on low lands in southern Illinois, but it is seldom found north of Jackson County in the west or north of Richland in the east.
This story relates the experience of one of those unfortunate children whose early days are passed in the companionship of a governess, seldom seeing either parent, and famishing for natural love and tenderness.
In a city of three million, one seldom meets casually anyone one knows.
Being a practical young man who thought in terms of dollars and cents, and seldomfound time for dreaming, he was not likely to take the matter seriously.
Although it was now the height of summer he seldom left the house, sitting much and sleeping in his own room, where he had a field-bed provided for him, and continually devoting himself to the violin.
In this form of the apparatus, the inventor was seldom able to raise water more than thirty feet: and when a greater altitude was required, it was effected by the impellent force of high pressure steam.
Such accidents, however, seldom resulted in much damage, red skin being probably tougher than white, and savage bones less brittle than civilised.
Theoretically the right side of D would require similar treatment, but actually this is seldom found necessary.
In the numerous theatrical posters which Mr. Bridwell has designed--and which too seldombear his signature--he employs a great variety of lettering.
He was a member of many London clubs but he seldom visited any of them.
But the Morning Post is impervious to new ideas and is above all things critical in its activities and very seldom constructive.
Truth and error alike and odd admixtures of them come in waves over this censored land where one can seldom determine what is true, before the event, from the newspapers.
Another gathering whose meetings he seldom missed was that of the Kinsmen, an informal club of literary men who met occasionally for food and converse in the Trocadero Restaurant.
Miss Ray keeps us informed of their comings and goings, for Janet seldom deigns to write.
His brief experience of school had made him less unsophisticated, and he seldom talked in his own peculiar fashion even to his little sister, and she added—- "Must people get wicked when they are rich?
He seldom rouses into talking much, but lies passive and half dozing when the feverish restlessness is not on him.
That boy's school character is perfect, except for a certain cool opinionativeness, which seldom comes out with me, but greatly annoys the undermasters.
This high dignitary seldom stirred but with his kitchen-furniture and service for the table, which last was of massy silver, beautifully wrought and embellished.
His brows were high, and unusually arched; but his eyes were downcast, and seldomraised towards the speaker.
I wot she was ever sighing and rambling about the house, and would seldom venture out alone, looking as though she were in jeopardy, and dreaded some hidden danger.
Yet were they not seldom pushed to a sally for their dinner; their friends outside, by lights and other appointed signals, directing the foragers in their operations.
He had seldombeen seen from his lodgings, except when performing his accustomed office in the church.
But although revolutions in civil society seldom produce anything better than a change of vices, yet surely no wise or good man can lament the subversion of Saxon polity for that which followed.
To these acquirements Willie added courage, firmness, and address, seldom paralleled in one of his tender years.
I began to feel rather uncomfortable, for Peter had by no means the look of one beside himself; besides, the understrappers at the post-office areseldom recruited from a lunatic asylum.
There's seldommuch company before the shooting season," added Frank with a slight sigh; "and then you know the holidays are over.
He seldom inquired after the ghost; and when he did, he always received the same answer.
There was then such a higera as has seldom been witnessed.
Then began a race seldom witnessed in Indian or any other kind of warfare.
When the inhabitants of a country are engaged in the peaceable employments of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, anarchy and rebellion seldom happen.
Facts speak to the contrary, and nations seldom attempt negotiations for peace under such circumstances.
Very few, comparatively, who are instigators of war actually take the field of battle, and are seldom seen in the front of the fire.
Seldom does a soldier return from the camp without the foul mouth of profanity.
Who these men were the common people did not always know; for while some were kings and rulers, others lived quietly hidden away in forests or mountains, and seldom or never showed themselves.
So, as a rule, every one fled before them, and the people were thankful that the fierce warriors of Spor seldom came to rob them oftener than once a year.
And when one day I strolled with her past a Hussar sentry who brought his sword flashing in the sun to the salute, I felt I had seldom experienced anything so satisfying.
Janetta might have her own private cares and worries, but in public, at any rate, she was seldom anything but cheerful.
And as she often visited the Adairs, she seldom failed to asked after Mary, until that consummation of Mary's fate which effectually destroyed Lady Caroline's interest in her.
Except when It went down to the Broadway to change the library books, It seldom saw Itself.
It was not perhaps so much of a coincidence, that he seldomfailed to discover Alicia in the mornings.
He seldom went out in the evening; but two or three times a year he escorted Madame Duplay and her daughter to the theatre.
I thought many of them had that strange expression of the eyes which those who have gazed long on scenes of woe or horror seldom lose.
Whenever I meet those who have survived that dreary spring of 1855, we seldom talk about its horrors; but remembering its transient gleams of sunshine, smile at the fun and good nature that varied its long and weary monotony.
Wine and spirits were also obtainable, but were seldom taken by the Americans, who are abstemious abroad as well as at home.
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