The Oldest School in AmericaHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1885 - 106 páginas |
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April April 23 best boys Boston Latin School boyhood Class classic Cotton Mather delightful methods Dixwell's easie and delightful eighteenth England Epes Sargent Dixwell Ezekiel Cheever faith fame fathers feel fiftieth anniversary Francis Gardner grammar grim Harvard College heroic honor hundred and fiftieth hundred and fifty John Cotton John Lovell King's Chapel Latin School Association Latin School boys learning Leverett live look Lovell's MARBLEHEAD NECK Master Gould Master Lovell memory modern ness never nobler Number old school oration Ovid past perpetual Philemon Pormort PHILLIPS BROOKS poem portrait pray prayer privilege prize public school pupils Puritan reign Reynolds ROBERT GRANT sacred scholars School Street schoolhouse schoolmaster schoolroom shines soul spirit taught teach teacher thank Thee things thought three great masters tion to-day to-night town meeting truth tury venerable school verses William Winthrop Woodmansey young youth
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Página 24 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to bitn to write and read...
Página 55 - Street and nearly to the bottom of the Mall, preparing to take up their march for Lexington. A corporal came up to me as I was going to school and turned me off to pass down Court Street, which I did, and came up School Street to the school-house. It may well be imagined that great agitation prevailed, the British line being drawn up a few yards only from the school-house door. As I entered the school I heard the announcement of Deponite libros, and ran home for fear of the regulars.
Página 48 - I know you will all concur with me,) that this hall may be ever sacred to the interests of truth, of justice, of loyalty, of honor, of liberty. May no private views nor party broils over enter within these walls...
Página 30 - Mr. E. Cheever of Boston, author of the Accidence ; that he wore a long white beard, terminating in a point; that when he stroked his beard to the point, it was a sign for the boys to stand clear.
Página 52 - A fig for your learning : I tell you the Town, To make the church larger, must pull the school down Unluckily spoken, replied Master Birch — Then learning, I fear, stops the growth of the Church.
Página 32 - Cassian dies, And falls to cursed Lads a Sacrifice. Not so my CHEEVER ; Not by Scholars slain, But Prais'd and Lov'd, and wish'd to Life again. A mighty Tribe of Well-instructed Youth Tell what they owe to him, and Tell with Truth, All the Eight parts of Speech he taught to them They now Employ to Trumpet his Esteem. They fill Fames Trumpet, and they spread a Fame To last till the Last Trumpet drown the same.
Página 20 - Boston public schools to-day — and who can count what thousands yet unborn ? — are to be heard crying out for life in the dry, quaint words of that old vote. By it the first educational institution, which was to have continuous existence in America, and in it the public-school system of the land, came into being. Philemon Pormort, the first teacher of the Latin School, is hardly more than a mere shadow of a name. It is not even clear that he ever actually taught the school at all. A few years...
Página 43 - ... em with some instructions of piety specially adapted to their age and education." According to its light the town still counted that it was its responsibility and right to watch over its children's characters. And the child honored religion all the more because he had heard his mother-city praying, his Jerusalem crying out to God for him. But I suppose the most striking thing which came in the teachership of Williams must have been the disturbance in town meeting in the year 1711. Some innovators,...
Página 41 - Leverett to Eliot the school has given to the college not a few of its best presidents and professors. And so we have a right to feel that we have not merely been dragged in the wake of our great neighbor, but have had something to do with the shaping of her course. Ships which met the Alaska and the Winnipeg upon mid-ocean thought that they saw only a great steamer with a little one in tow ; but really the little steamer was the rudder that was keeping the great steamer in her course. And so we...
Página 66 - Can you not feel his proverbs and his phrases, each hard as iron with perpetual use, come pelting across the hall, finding the weak spot in your self-complacency, and making it sensitive and humble ever since ? He was a narrow man in the intensity with which he thought of his profession. I heard him say once that he never knew a man who had failed as a schoolmaster to succeed in any other occupation. And yet he was a broad man in his idea of the range which he conceived that his teaching ought to...