Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 828
arious educational tests to determinejust where he stands in point of age—is he reallytwelve years old physically and mentally, as wellas in years? If he is not, special training for hisbrain and for his muscles is devised, so that ifpossible, before he leaves the Village, he may bebrought up to… … IN THE CLASSROOM. grade in school is determined and a trade ischosen for him. Perhaps he is of a mechanicalturn of mind, and plumbing appeals to him as agood trade. If so, he is put into the class inplumbing under the instruction of a man who notonly knows plumbing, but who knows how tu 1106 THE…
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