Minutes of the Texas State Teachers Association: Eleventh Annual Session, Galveston, June 25, 26, 27, 1890

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State Printing Office, 1890 - 81 pages
 

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Page 4 - Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad — a personage less imposing — in the eyes of some perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
Page 29 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 75 - ... shall be appointed for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years.
Page 40 - Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.
Page 76 - Article two shall be appointed to serve for a term of one year, two for two years, and two for three years, and thereafter two shall be appointed in each year to serve for a term of three years.
Page 56 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 31 - ... eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 27 - The babe by its mother Lies bathed in joy, Glide its hours uncounted, The sun is its toy; Shines the peace of all being Without cloud in its eyes, And the sum of the world In soft miniature lies.
Page 76 - This Constitution may be amended at any regular meeting by a vote of two-thirds of the institutions represented at said meeting, provided the membership has been notified, through the Secretary, of such proposed alteration or amendment at least thirty days prior to the meeting.
Page 62 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.

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