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Text-books were used, to be sure, and classes were, in a sort, graded, but books played a smaller part than usual in the teachings of each day, and every task of the pupils was so put into actual practice as to make it a lesson of experience, if possible.
Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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Text-books, for instance, do not contain knowledge but merely symbols of knowledge, which would have no significance and give no light without a mind to interpret them.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Text-books of the American School of Correspondence -- especially
Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson
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It is evident, that to secure a complete system of teaching Geography in our Schools, there should be at least three grades of Text-books; namely,
First Lessons in Geography James Monteith
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Text-books have been written and university chairs founded to present its claims, international associations and conventions have met to define more accurately its code, and tentative steps have been taken to strengthen its position by two Hague Conferences that met in 1899 and 1907.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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Text-books are not useless but they are very hard to find, and many
The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart
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The Pathfinder Series of Text-books on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene consists of the following volumes:
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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Text-books were his handmaidens, he was not their slave.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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Text-books tell us that the Dhurmsalla meteorites were picked up "soon," or "within half an hour."
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Text-books tell of India's walking-fish, but I have been able to find nothing as to the walking-fish of the
A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Florence Kimball Russel
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