Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ..., Volume 18, Issues 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 - Digital images |
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... young men and women of the South , especially for better class of colored young folk ............ VII . Knowledge of social environment of Southern people essential to fair estimate of educational situation - Habit in Gulf States of ...
... young men and women of the South , especially for better class of colored young folk ............ VII . Knowledge of social environment of Southern people essential to fair estimate of educational situation - Habit in Gulf States of ...
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... young women , everywhere en- couraged by sympathy , support , sacrifice , toils , and prayers of the elder generation at home .. XXX . Characteristics of progress in recent secondary and higher educa- tional movement for Southern girls ...
... young women , everywhere en- couraged by sympathy , support , sacrifice , toils , and prayers of the elder generation at home .. XXX . Characteristics of progress in recent secondary and higher educa- tional movement for Southern girls ...
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... young men in common schools - Young women of this race - Colored woman as servant , nurse , and friend of childhood in the South in the old days - Same influence exalted and refined in life of colored woman teacher - Myrtilla Miner's ...
... young men in common schools - Young women of this race - Colored woman as servant , nurse , and friend of childhood in the South in the old days - Same influence exalted and refined in life of colored woman teacher - Myrtilla Miner's ...
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... young girls into a womanhood of great promise . The South- ern boy who steps out from his brief school life at 12 or 14 to face the world , amid his peculiar environment gets an educational discipline that might often be envied by the ...
... young girls into a womanhood of great promise . The South- ern boy who steps out from his brief school life at 12 or 14 to face the world , amid his peculiar environment gets an educational discipline that might often be envied by the ...
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... young women . The character of these schools probably did not differ essentially from the same class of schools for girls in the Northern States , although , in the North , there were a large number of coeducational academies . The old ...
... young women . The character of these schools probably did not differ essentially from the same class of schools for girls in the Northern States , although , in the North , there were a large number of coeducational academies . The old ...
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