Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Michigan: With Accompanying Documents, for the Year ..., Band 43

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Hosmer & Kerr, Printers to the State, 1880
 

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Seite 183 - I have not made up my mind whether it is not ' better to bear the ills we have than fly to others we know not of.
Seite l - ... said district or upon any territory belonging thereto at the time of holding any school meeting, shall be entitled to vote on all questions arising in said district which do not directly involve the raising of money by tax.
Seite 198 - I should say that no such period has as yet been reached anywhere, and that there is no prospect of its being reached anywhere within any assignable time. Where, in the very most advanced and civilised communities, will you find any class of persons whose views or whose conduct on subjects on which they are interested are regulated even in the main by the results of free discussion...
Seite 216 - It is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no clime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave; at home, a friend; abroad, an introduction; in solitude, a solace; in society, an ornament.
Seite xliv - Education) may grant state certificates of qualification to such teachers as may, upon a thorough and critical examination, be found to possess eminent scholarship and professional ability, and shall furnish satisfactory evidence of good moral character.
Seite 215 - ... *I here introduce a fact,' he remarks,' which has been suggested to me by my profession, and that is, that the exercise of the organs of the breast by singing contributes very much to defend them from those diseases to which the climate and other causes expose them.
Seite 140 - Warmth must be obtained as the first demand of nature, and without it civilization will go back. When men are cold they give themselves to physical exercise; and if that is impossible, to discomfort, in which the mind refuses to do more than to complain if it cannot forget...
Seite 215 - ... the exercise of the organs of the breast by singing contributes very much to defend them from those diseases to which the climate and other causes expose them. The Germans are seldom afflicted with consumption ; nor have I ever known more than one case of spitting of blood among them.
Seite 194 - Quincey has pointed out that a man who takes up any pursuit without knowing what advances others have made in it works at a great disadvantage. He does not apply his strength in the right direction, he troubles himself about small matters and neglects great, he falls into errors that have long since been exploded.
Seite 49 - Behold, gentlemen, the State of Michigan, only about forty years old, has the merit of being in advance of ancient Europe in the inauguration of a new era for indigent children.

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