"How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school's sway Have I run forth to Nature as to a friend, — With some pretext of o…"

"Why hold ye so my heart, nor dimly let Through your deep leaves the light of yesterday, The faded glimmer of a sunshi…"

"If Youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can th…"

"If you would only stop rating a child's ability by your own; and try to find out just what ability a child has, our y…"

"Though it was long thought that woman's brain was minor in comparison with man's, woman, as a class, now-a-day shows …"

"Oh, what a lot of politically blind city and town officials I could point out within a day's auto trip from Branton H…"

"In this country, two things stand first in rank: your flag and your mail. You all know what honor you pay to your fla…"

"It is curious why anybody should pooh-pooh a study of fossils or various forms of rocks or lava. Such things grant us…"

"Isn't it surprising what an array of things a woman can drag forth, burrowing into attics, rooms and nooks! Things lo…"

"Now Branton Hills had, as you know, built this school for public instruction; and, as with all such institutions, vis…"