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That was all very well, but was this the place for a young man of eighteen to live in, without a good library, without good society, without emulation and literacy intercourse?
"He hates Literacy so, and his own children are Literates, and his program against Literacy is being twisted against itself!" "But you agree that we're right and he's wrong?" Prestonby asked. "You must, or you'd never have come to me to learn to read." "He's such a good father. I'd hate to see him hurt," she said. "But, Ralph, you're my man.
I wrote two articles in the Harburonian, became something of a debater in the Literacy and Political, conducted many long conversations with my senior contemporaries upon religion, politics, sport and social life, and concealed my inmost thoughts from every human being. Indeed, so effective had been the training of Harbury and Mr.
"I thought I was Literate enough to spot Literacy in anybody else," she said. "No, I never even suspected " Somebody rapped on the door. "Miss Pelton," the sergeant's voice called. "Visiphone call from Literates' Hall." Prestonby smiled. "I'll take it, if you don't mind," he said. "I'm acting-chief-Literate here, now, I suppose." She followed him as he went out into Pelton's office.
After 1905 began the astonishing increase in the number of these important organizations, which continued, year after year, right up to the Revolution of 1917. In 1905 there were 4,479 such co-operatives in Russia; in 1911 there were 19,253. Another hopeful sign was the steadily increasing literacy of the masses. Statistics upon this point are almost worthless.
For the record we list fourteen aspects of the domestic growth of civilization: population; production of goods and services; trade, commerce, finance; wealth, capital, income, capital construction; the defense establishment; growth in numbers and in variety of consumer goods and services; specialization; formal education, literacy, learning; advances in science and technology; growth in the arts; rising standards of luxury for the oligarchy and growth in the volume of the professional and technical middle class and their living standards; growth of the state bureaucratic apparatus in its complexity and in the number of its personnel; growth of the sources of unearned income and especially in the number of persons living on unearned income; growth of dependents, delinquents, criminals and other outlaws.
In all these churches, services are generally carried on in the English language alone. In San Francisco de Macoris, Protestant services are conducted in Spanish by devotees who do not seem to be ordained by any particular sect. Education in Spanish times. Work of Hostos. School organization. Professional institute. Primary and secondary education. Literacy. Libraries. Newspapers. Literature.
Gosse conjectures, they were read chiefly by milliners and other women on the verge of literacy. But though persons of solid education avoided reading novels and eastern tales as they might the drinking of drams, it is certain that no one of scanty means could have afforded Mrs. Haywood's slender octavos at the price of one to three shillings. Doubtless Mrs.
It has come to my notice, as it has to Literate Graves', that this young woman, Claire Pelton, is Literate to a degree that would be a credit to any Literate First Class, and her brother can match his Literacy creditably against that of any novice in our Fraternities.
"My contract with your union says nothing whatever about any right of review being reserved by the union in such cases. Only in cases of disciplinary dismissal, which this is not. I take the position that certain minimum standards of intelligence and mental stability are essentials in this sort of work, just as, say, certain minimum standards of literacy are essential in clerical work."
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