Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Friday, May 30, 2008

Thrashed by the Clerk

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New York, 1895 Officers of Roslyn are looking for the members of the "Kettle Gang," who have recently entered a number of houses a...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Local Chatauquas

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1916 Going to Chautauqua formerly meant taking a railroad trip to western New York. Now it may mean taking a street car to a grove somewhere...

Women Are Best Taught by Women

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1901 Womanly graces of mind and heart are best taught by women. Nothing can make up for the lack of early mother love and mother care in a g...

Fortunate Twentieth Century Girl

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1901 It is indeed a good time for girls to live, and I think they should realize by whose efforts it became the "good time." Do th...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Talk — The Manner of It

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1916 The high schools and colleges of the day ought to do something more to teach students how to talk. The young men would be better off fo...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

Started In With "Enthusiasm"

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1900 In an interview, Booker T. Washington tells the story of some of his early experiences at Tuskegee. "After teaching in the ordinar...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Duties of Brides Taught In College

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1920 CLASS NOW LEARNING "HOW TO STAY MARRIED." Engaged Girls Strive Hard for Immunity Against Grouchy Mates and Alluring Vamps. DE...
Sunday, April 6, 2008

At Last! Substitute for Booze Is Found

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1920 Good Music Takes Place of Whisky, Says Pianist. It's here! That long sought substitute for John Barleycorn has been found — and jus...
Friday, April 4, 2008

Jumbled English

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1919 A school patron talking with a prominent educator the other day said that with all of the effort made in North Carolina schools to give...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

The Funny Side of Life

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1902 Point of View When a fellow has spent His last red cent, The world looks blue — you bet! But — give him a dollar And you'll hear hi...
Friday, July 27, 2007

Weapons of the Teachers

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1917 Evil Methods Inspiring Fear Not Conducive to Best Results Power to produce fear is a poor weapon. The teacher who uses it is not doing ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Still in the Kindergarten

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1905 Those Who Can Be Interested in Nothing That Is Not a "Game" After an intelligent and watchful mother had sent her children to...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Early Calculator — Lifesaver for Schoolboys?

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1900 In one of the statistical divisions of the Department of Agriculture in Washington may be seen a machine resembling a typewriter, which...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

History of Leon Public School

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Leon, Iowa By Miss Sue E. Bell Thinking that it would be of some interest to the citizens and old settlers of Leon, I have endeavored to wri...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Teachers 1882-1898, Leon, Iowa

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Leon, Iowa area — From old scrapbook History of Leon Public School [second half of the article, see bottom for link to first half] By Miss S...

Gossip About Women – "The New Woman"

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Feb. 1896 Ella Wheeler Wilcox believes in reincarnation. A training school for waitresses is a new Philadelphia institution. Miss Helen Culv...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

An Incomplete Education

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1899 Ignorance, even dense ignorance, is often to be met with in this country of public schools, but it is seldom that one finds a man in al...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Objects To Boys Sewing In School

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Illinois, 1910 We received a very strong letter this week from a mother protesting against her boy being taught sewing in school when the ti...
Monday, June 11, 2007

'Frisco Has Child Linguist Prodigy

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1910 SAN FRANCISCO. — Leland Stanford University is to acquire a child prodigy of whom quite as great things are expected as of Harvard'...
Saturday, June 9, 2007

Training for Left-Handedness

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1915 Positive Results Not Seen as Anticipated Some time ago the development of left-handedness in children was warmly advocated by various p...