Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the... classroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account... of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Suffragists, hear this last call to a suffrage convention! The officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association hereby call their State auxiliaries, through their elected delegates, to meet in annual convention at Chicago, Congress Hotel, February 12th to 18th, inclusive. In other days our members and friends have been summoned to annual conventions to disseminate the propaganda for their common cause, to cheer and encourage each other, to strengthen their organized influence, to counsel as to ways and means of insuring further progress. At this time they are called to rejoice that the struggle is over, the aim achieved and the women of the nation about to enter into the enjoyment of their hard-earned political liberty. Of all the conventions held within the past fifty-one years, this will prove the most momentous. Few people live to see the actual and final realization of hopes to which they have devoted their lives. That privilege is ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
School days, school days; dear old golden rule days. Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic; taught to the tune of a hick'ry stic...k.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men is... not to be compared.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis too plain that with the material power the moral progress has not kept pace. It appears that we have not made a judicious inv...estment. Works and days were offered us, and we took works.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The days are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension and of the greatest capacity of anything that ex...ists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the h...and, and we share their thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »