The Meo School and the Public School Ideal
A lecture by Miss Mary Williams of East Ward argues public schools shape character and urges models of health light and order. She urges clean rooms, pleasant furnishings, object lessons, and teacher mastery to form habits, conduct, and sympathy in pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moline
Mise Mary Willams
East Ward
Jni
Burt
Jahom
Pacific
Asia
America
Hleaven
Little Willie
Jack Frost
A Teacher Urges Simpler First Lessons in Education
A Tennessee senator and educator advocates a shift from rote letter drills to practical early instruction. He describes a first lesson plan that begins with name and age, then drawing lines to form letters, then short sentences using simple words, ending with a promise to present arithmetic basics soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Review-Diapatch
Robert C. Bardenwerper
Dreamer sees shipwreck fate before it happens at Suez
The author recalls an 1869 voyage on the Neera from Suez to Bombay. A passenger dream foresees the Carnatic’s wreck near Shaduan Island. The dream’s timing coincides with the Carnatic’s actual fate, revealing the ship’s rock collision and the rescue of survivors by a later steamer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Magazine
George A. Hanscom
Lowell
Massachusetts
Suez
Bombay and Bungal Steamship Company
William F. Stearns
Professor Stearns
Amherst College
India
Bombay
Peninsular and Oriental Company
Carnatic
Isthmus
Shaduan Island
Gulf of Suez
Red Sea
Morton
Aden
Peninsular and Oriental Office
Dreamer
Necra
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Entral
Abs West
Motine
Connecticut
Wethersfield
Ealeby
Moling, Illinois
M. Christy
Office
Bareny
Rock Island, Ill
Gus. Lindwall
Rodiran Avenue
Henry Street
DR. Marshall
Perry
Davenport
P. Bergstrom
City Undertaker
New Steeda Church
L. Franing SE
Milan
A ET
Fred. Kimmerle
Ity Brewery and Beer Ha
Water Street
Brindy, Milawn, Ili
Ruck Island, Ill
J.Q. Banks
Coves
Fortune
H HaLuett PG Cog
Portland
Maine
Wld
Sided '&e'Co
Cnemigts
New York
Morene Iron Works
Williams, White & Company
Northwest
Congression
DuFour & Co
D.O. Reid
Moline Wagon Co
Wakufacture
Illinois
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