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What Is Expected Of Children

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Day
4
Month
March
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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ra! men wore gathered at the door of a blackstnith shop on Cass avenue the othcr morning, when a school-boy, notover nine yeara of age, carne along with tear.s n his eyes, and ooe of the group asked : " Whit's the matter, boy,- did you fail down '!" "N-nn, but Fve gota hard 'ritlimetie leason, and I expect to get licked," wan tlie answer. "Let me pee ; I used to be the king-bee on fraction.s." The man took tlie book, turned to the page and read : " Rule 1. - Kind tlie lc:i-t aOBBM multiple of the (lenoniinatnrH of the fraetiops for the lrat oominoa denominali.r. Divide the least cotumon denominator by each lenotninator and niultiply lioth teniis of thfl fractions by the (juotient obtained by each denoniinator. " He read the rule aloud and asked if any one could underatand it. All hout tlnir heails and then he contimicd : " Well, now, I tliinlc I should go to work and disver the least ¦¦rwnmiiu tgil I would then evolve u parallel aooordii the ititrinsic deviator and pODCtoati thermometer." " So would I I" anweri'l trerj iiinn in chorus, and one of them add'd have worked theoi out that way a thon times." Nut one of the men, a!l of whom were in business and had made luoncy, ouull even understand the working ol the rul', much lese work enaplet by it ; and . was expected that u nine year old boy should go to the blackboard and do overy sum off-hand.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News