Lessons in Community and National Life: Series B, for the First Class of the High School and the Upper Grades of the Elementary School |
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Page 170 - Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins; and also provides that no State shall coin money or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts...
Page 167 - THE United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of thev respective States — fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States...
Page 181 - No merchant could contract to deliver goods without making some stipulation about the quality of the coin in which he was to be paid. Even men of business were often bewildered by the confusion into which all pecuniary transactions were thrown. The simple and the careless were pillaged without mercy by extortioners whose demands grew even more rapidly than the money shrank.
Page 181 - ... by the anvil and by the loom, on the billows of the ocean and in the depths of the mine. Nothing could be purchased without a dispute. Over every counter there was wrangling from morning to night. The workman and his employer had a quarrel as regularly as the Saturday came round.
Page 3 - In order that there may be definite material at hand with which the schools may at once expand their teaching I have asked Mr. Hoover and Commissioner Claxton to organize the proper agencies for the preparation and distribution of suitable lessons for the elementary grades and for the high school classes. Lessons thus suggested will serve the double purpose of illustrating in a concrete way what can be undertaken in the schools and of stimulating teachers in all parts of the country to formulate...
Page 6 - ... carry the methods of the Lessons further. Especially is it hoped that the Lessons will lead to studies of the local institutions which are around the school. A genuine study of community life must take up the familiar environment at the door of the schoolroom. The laboratory for these Lessons is in the home environment and the industrial environment of the pupil. It is hoped that the Lessons will lead teachers and school officers to new efforts in the direction of a vital study of community life...
Page 3 - Matters which heretofore have seemed commonplace and trivial are seen in a truer light. The urgent demand for the production and proper distribution of food and other national resources has made us aware of the close dependence of individual on individual and nation on nation. The effort to keep up social and industrial organizations, in spite of the withdrawal of men for the army, has revealed the extent to which modern life has become complex and specialized. These and other lessons of the war...
Page 65 - After three weeks of looking for work he got a job as errand boy for a dyeing and cleaning establishment. Five dollars a week were the wages, and tips amounted to a dollar or two extra. At the end of one week the boy who had had the job before came back and John was fired. . After a day's hunt he saw a sign, "Boy Wanted," and was taken on by a firm manufacturing ladies
Page 66 - Agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry.. „. Extraction of minerals.. Manufacturing and mechanical industries 811 ANI> GENERAL DIVISION Or OCCUPATION Agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry Extraction of minpmls Manufacturing and mechanical industries Transportation Trade Public service (not elsewhere classified)..