The Native American, Volume 17

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Phoenix Indian School, 1916 - Indians of North America

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Page 394 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 14 - ... unless it is found to be in the interest of the service to fill any vacancy by reinstatement, transfer, or promotion.
Page 34 - When the boy knows this out of book, he goes and does it. It's just the same principle as the use of the globes. Where's the second boy?" "Please, sir, he's weeding the garden, "replied a small voice.
Page 382 - I am sure you will all agree with me when I say that we have had an intellectual treat.
Page 16 - There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration: they bind us over to rectitude and purity by their pure belief about us ; and our sins become that worst kind of sacrilege which tears down the invisible altar of trust.
Page 206 - This leads to the further reflection that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know nothing so pleasant to the mind as the discovery of anything that is at once new and valuable — nothing that so lightens and sweetens toil as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery.
Page 34 - Please, sir, he's weeding the garden," replied a small voice. " To be sure," said Squeers, by no means disconcerted. " So he is. Bot, bot, tin, tin, bottin, ney, ney, bottinney, noun substantive, a knowledge of plants.
Page 44 - If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing, If you like him or you love him, tell him now...
Page 44 - If you think some praise is due him, now's the time to slip it to him. For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead! More than fame and more than money is the comment kind and sunny, And the hearty, warm approval of a friend, For it...
Page 269 - Summon a physician at once and immediately notify the health officer of the presence of the disease. If the disease is present in the community, medical aid should be sought whenever a child is sick no matter how light the illness; many cases of infantile paralysis begin with a slight indisposition. Should the illness prove to be infantile paralysis isolate the patient, place a competent person in charge, and reduce all communication with the sick room to a minimum. Hospital care is preferable, not...

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