Latin and Greek in American Education: With Symposia on the Value of Humanistic StudiesFrancis Willey Kelsey Macmillan, 1911 - 396 pages |
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... important if not indispensable , the Christian ministry , no longer attracts young men as formerly , and does not now exert so powerful an influence among us as it once did in favor of a literary education . In 1889-90 only 7,013 ...
... important if not indispensable , the Christian ministry , no longer attracts young men as formerly , and does not now exert so powerful an influence among us as it once did in favor of a literary education . In 1889-90 only 7,013 ...
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... important bearing on the problem of educational assimilation of the foreign elements , has been made by Professor C. D. Buck ( Decennial Publications of the University of Chi- cago , VI , 97-114 ) . of persons of foreign parentage is ...
... important bearing on the problem of educational assimilation of the foreign elements , has been made by Professor C. D. Buck ( Decennial Publications of the University of Chi- cago , VI , 97-114 ) . of persons of foreign parentage is ...
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... important reason is that until recently most colleges made Greek a requirement for admission to at least one course . How great have been the changes in the requirements for admission to college in the past decade one familiar with the ...
... important reason is that until recently most colleges made Greek a requirement for admission to at least one course . How great have been the changes in the requirements for admission to college in the past decade one familiar with the ...
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... important as we ascend from lower to higher grades of instruction ; but of greater value than the knowledge acquired , in the ! period of adolescence as of childhood , are first , 17 CHAPTER II THE VALUE OF LATIN AND GREEK AS ...
... important as we ascend from lower to higher grades of instruction ; but of greater value than the knowledge acquired , in the ! period of adolescence as of childhood , are first , 17 CHAPTER II THE VALUE OF LATIN AND GREEK AS ...
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... importance of arithmetic for the child , or of anatomy for the student of medicine ; the only question is , how shall these subjects be taught , and how much time shall be devoted to them ? Though there 18 LATIN AND GREEK.
... importance of arithmetic for the child , or of anatomy for the student of medicine ; the only question is , how shall these subjects be taught , and how much time shall be devoted to them ? Though there 18 LATIN AND GREEK.
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