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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III STUDENT LIFE HEN Frances Willard was fourteen, her father and a neighbor bestirred themselves for their children's sake, and the little brown schoolhouse was built in the wood, about a mile away. It was the simplest of district school- houses, plain and inviting, Frances says, a bit of a building under the trees on the river bank. It looked like a natural growth, a sort of big ground-nut. The pine desks were ranged around the wall, the boys on one side, the girls on the other, and a real live graduate from Yale was teacher. '' There will be lots of rules, '' said Oliver to his sisters, the evening before their first real school day opened. '' Never mind, said Frances, '' It will be a pleasant change to have some rules and live up to them. In this school the sisters had ten months of bright inspiring instruction keyed to high ideals for heart and head. We can hear the ardent child Frances leading in rich contralto tones the favorite song with which they made '' the rafters ring: Now to heaven our prayer ascending, God speed the right! In a noble cause contending, God speed the right!'' With these school days began an enlarged social outlook for the young recluses whose home playmates heretofore had scarcely been other than brother and sister, father and mother. The storing and unfolding of mind was continuous and an unending series of beautiful experiences was laid away for future consideration. In addition to some odd volumes of travel and biography the books they had thus far studied were the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress and Shakespeare. Shakespeare was a '' most wise instructor, and certain it is that before she was fifteen the eager girl had read, reread and commented upon all his plays, this giving her an immense advantage when sh...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217621960
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 150
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217621961
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 281 gr


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