Public Letters and Papers of Thomas Walter Bickett, Governor of North Carolina, 1917-1921 |
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... present system the people who are in the sorest need of instruction are the very last to receive it . It is my purpose to make every rural school a farm - life school . A simple manual of good farming , applicable to actual North ...
... present system the people who are in the sorest need of instruction are the very last to receive it . It is my purpose to make every rural school a farm - life school . A simple manual of good farming , applicable to actual North ...
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... present mongrel system , whereby in twenty counties these officials are elected by a vote of the people , and in eighty counties by the General Assembly , cannot be justified in any forum of common justice or common sense . The avowed ...
... present mongrel system , whereby in twenty counties these officials are elected by a vote of the people , and in eighty counties by the General Assembly , cannot be justified in any forum of common justice or common sense . The avowed ...
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... present administration . THE STATE HOSPITALS The saying of Wilson , " Put your eggs in one basket and watch that basket , " applies to the management of our State hospitals for the insane . Under the present arrangement , with a ...
... present administration . THE STATE HOSPITALS The saying of Wilson , " Put your eggs in one basket and watch that basket , " applies to the management of our State hospitals for the insane . Under the present arrangement , with a ...
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... present system it is impossible to avoid duplication of work . There cannot be perfect coöperation between the two when each has only a vague knowl- edge of what the other is doing , and each is endeavoring to cover the widest possible ...
... present system it is impossible to avoid duplication of work . There cannot be perfect coöperation between the two when each has only a vague knowl- edge of what the other is doing , and each is endeavoring to cover the widest possible ...
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... present quarters are neither safe nor sanitary , nor can they be made so . I recommend that quarters be built on the State farm amply sufficient to take care of all convicts , and that the entire administration of the State Prison be ...
... present quarters are neither safe nor sanitary , nor can they be made so . I recommend that quarters be built on the State farm amply sufficient to take care of all convicts , and that the entire administration of the State Prison be ...
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Page 226 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. "The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 41 - SEC. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress.
Page 163 - Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 101 - They climbed the steep ascent of heaven Through peril, toil, and pain : O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train.
Page 228 - And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!
Page 377 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee : nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 226 - Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs ; And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the silence and the calm Of mute insensate things. The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that...
Page 244 - States at Philadelphia, and accepted by the votes of States in popular conventions, it is safe to say that there was not a man in the country from Washington and Hamilton on the one side, to George Clinton and George Mason on the other, who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the States and from which each and every State had the right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very likely to be exercised.
Page 241 - An old man going a lone highway, came at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Page 377 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.