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Page 365 - Every child shall have acquired the ability to sing at sight, using words, a unison song of hymn-tune grade; or using syllables, a two-part song of hymn-tune grade, and the easiest three-part songs; these to be in any key; to include any of the measures and rhythms in ordinary use; to contain any accidental signs and tones easily introduced; and in general to be of the grade of difficulty of folk songs such as "The Minstrel Boy"; also knowledge of the major and minor keys and their signatures.
Page 377 - ... and art of education should furnish the mind with, and fasten there, and never cease till the young man had a true relish of it, and placed his strength, his glory, and his pleasure in it.
Page 378 - Those activities which, by securing the necessaries of life, indirectly minister to self-preservation; 3. Those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring; 4. Those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations; 5. Those miscellaneous activities which make up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification of the tastes and feelings.
Page 364 - Every child shall have acquired a repertory of songs which may be carried into the home and social life, including "America" and "The Star-Spangled Banner.
Page 379 - To nourish the mind of the child through the course of study which should comprise an orderly presentation of the whole field of knowledge in its elements, and to provide the opportunity for the exercise of all his powers, mental, moral, aesthetic, manual, or constructive, through good instruction and wise discipline ; (b) to guard and promote his normal physical development.
Page 286 - ... And pick a little star to make a fan. And dance away up there in the middle of the air? Well, they can. There are fairies at the bottom of our garden ! You cannot think how beautiful they are; They all stand up and sing when the Fairy Queen and King Come gently floating down upon their car. The King is very proud and very handsome: The Queen — now can you guess who that could be (She's a little girl all day, but at night she steals away)? Well— it's Me! Grade IV An Impetuous Resolve JAMES...
Page 212 - A Summary of Some Significant Conclusions Reached by Investigators Relative to Arithmetic," Elementary School Journal, XXV (January, 1925), 346-57A critical summary of the outstanding investigations in arithmetic prior to 1925.
Page 290 - The general or humanistic aim of music instruction is to contribute to the character of the individual and society an additional measure of the idealism, the joyous preoccupation with unselfish interests, the elevation and purification of feeling and the psychic health dependent upon abundant but orderly expression of emotion that comes from appreciative contact with and the endeavor to create and recreate the beautiful in music.
Page 99 - The prevention and correction of errors in arithmetic) Chicago, The Plymouth Press, 1924.
Page 304 - ... Till America has learned to love art, not as an amusement, not as the mere ornament of her cities, not as a superstition of what is comme il faut for a great nation, but for its humanizing and ennobling energy, for its power of making men better by arousing in them a perception of their own instincts for what is beautiful, and therefore sacred and religious, and an eternal rebuke of the base and worldly, she will not have succeeded in that high sense which alone makes a nation out of a people,...