grizz44
Well-Known Member
Thought I might share this item I found in an old book a few years ago. Bottles are hard to beat but if you're like me, anything old is cool!
This is a 3 page homework assignment thats dated May 11, 1887. It is written on some good stationary as you can see a head stamp in the upper left corner.
Reads as follows:
In the first place we will notice the settlement compared to what it was in the ancient time. Now we have scool houses scattered around only a mile or two distance instead of three or four miles apart.
Forinstance I will relate a story which I have heard my grandma tell about going to school one morning with her two older brothers and some neighbor children, they were walking along and all of a sudden two big bears jumped out at them, fortunately there was an old log frame that stood nearby, and as the children ran and climbed up on the huge logs they were saved. So how very thankful we should be that we don't come in contact with such encounters nowadays.
It was thought what an improvement it was when the frame school houses were built, but now we have brick ones and what a vast difference there is between those and the old log houses. And the improvements on the books , and the teaching are equally so, we have the revised Mc Guffies and many other grand studies which we aught to improve our school hours in.
It is hoped that fifty years from now, they will not have the opportunity to make vast improvements over the present as we have over the past.
Lula Hill
Camden, Ohio
May 11, 1887
This is a 3 page homework assignment thats dated May 11, 1887. It is written on some good stationary as you can see a head stamp in the upper left corner.
Reads as follows:
Modern School Houses and Schools
This subject that is assigned me, I do not know very much about, but what little I do know I will endeaver to tell you. In the first place we will notice the settlement compared to what it was in the ancient time. Now we have scool houses scattered around only a mile or two distance instead of three or four miles apart.
Forinstance I will relate a story which I have heard my grandma tell about going to school one morning with her two older brothers and some neighbor children, they were walking along and all of a sudden two big bears jumped out at them, fortunately there was an old log frame that stood nearby, and as the children ran and climbed up on the huge logs they were saved. So how very thankful we should be that we don't come in contact with such encounters nowadays.
It was thought what an improvement it was when the frame school houses were built, but now we have brick ones and what a vast difference there is between those and the old log houses. And the improvements on the books , and the teaching are equally so, we have the revised Mc Guffies and many other grand studies which we aught to improve our school hours in.
It is hoped that fifty years from now, they will not have the opportunity to make vast improvements over the present as we have over the past.
Lula Hill
Camden, Ohio
May 11, 1887
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