2012, ISBN: 1130337340

[EAN: 9781130337341], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing… Plus…

[EAN: 9781130337341], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: .education. There was not much letter-writing then, and the mails were carried mostly on horseback, with little regularity and no speed, so that news sent by mail almost became history by the time it reached the reader. The newspapers were published weekly, and were slow with their news and rather dull in their comments. There were schools in all the leading towns and cities. In New England there were schools in almost every township. But there was no public-school system like that which prevails at present. The schools were, for the most part, poor; the discipline in them was severe, and sometimes brutal. Boys were taught to read and write, and sometimes to cast accounts. Girls learned to read, sometimes also to write. But needlework and fancy-work were thought more appropriate to their sex. The oldest college in the country was Harvard, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was founded in 1638. The next oldest was the college of William and Mary, at Williamsburg, the capital of Virginia, which was chartered in 1693, in the reign of William and Mary, and which at the beginning of the Revolution was the richest college in the colonies. Yale College, in New Haven, founded in 1700, was the third in age. There was also a college in New York, one in Philadelphia, and another in Princeton, New Jersey. But we are not to think of any of these colleges as great institutions. They were, rather, little more than academies in the number of their students and in their provisions for the education of pupils. For a long time after the colonies were settled there science, nterahad been little that one could call literature or art or science. People busy in cutting down forests and building new towns have no time to write books or paint pictures. The early books we.<

2012, ISBN: 1130337340

[EAN: 9781130337341], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing … Plus…

[EAN: 9781130337341], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: .education. There was not much letter-writing then, and the mails were carried mostly on horseback, with little regularity and no speed, so that news sent by mail almost became history by the time it reached the reader. The newspapers were published weekly, and were slow with their news and rather dull in their comments. There were schools in all the leading towns and cities. In New England there were schools in almost every township. But there was no public-school system like that which prevails at present. The schools were, for the most part, poor; the discipline in them was severe, and sometimes brutal. Boys were taught to read and write, and sometimes to cast accounts. Girls learned to read, sometimes also to write. But needlework and fancy-work were thought more appropriate to their sex. The oldest college in the country was Harvard, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was founded in 1638. The next oldest was the college of William and Mary, at Williamsburg, the capital of Virginia, which was chartered in 1693, in the reign of William and Mary, and which at the beginning of the Revolution was the richest college in the colonies. Yale College, in New Haven, founded in 1700, was the third in age. There was also a college in New York, one in Philadelphia, and another in Princeton, New Jersey. But we are not to think of any of these colleges as great institutions. They were, rather, little more than academies in the number of their students and in their provisions for the education of pupils. For a long time after the colonies were settled there science, nterahad been little that one could call literature or art or science. People busy in cutting down forests and building new towns have no time to write books or paint pictures. The early books we.<

ISBN: 1130337340

Taschenbuch, [EAN: 9781130337341], Rarebooksclub.com, Rarebooksclub.com, Book, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com], Rarebooksclub.com, 65196011, Amerika, 65233011, Amerikanische Ur-Einwohner, 6519701… Plus…

Taschenbuch, [EAN: 9781130337341], Rarebooksclub.com, Rarebooksclub.com, Book, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com], Rarebooksclub.com, 65196011, Amerika, 65233011, Amerikanische Ur-Einwohner, 65197011, Kanada, 65207011, Karibik & Westindische Inseln, 65232011, Mexiko, 65222011, Mittelamerika, 65240011, Südamerika, 65254011, USA, 65140011, Geschichte, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher, 67215011, Literarisch, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher<

2012, ISBN: 9781130337341

The Household History of the United States and Its People; For Young Americans: Paperback: Rarebooksclub.com: 9781130337341: 01 Mar 2012 Anthologies (non-Poetry), , , , The Household His… Plus…

The Household History of the United States and Its People; For Young Americans: Paperback: Rarebooksclub.com: 9781130337341: 01 Mar 2012 Anthologies (non-Poetry), , , , The Household History of the United States and Its People; For Young Americans, Deceased Edward Eggleston, 9781130337341, Rarebooksclub.com, , , , ,<

ISBN: 9781130337341

Paperback, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com], Anthologies (non-poetry)