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Identifier: stnicholasserial4821dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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E ROAD BY ANNE WALDRON (AGE 15) (Gold Badge. Silver Badge won May, IQ20)Then the whining school-boy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. (As You Like It: Act II, Scene 7)There you have the tale entire; for that self-sameschool-boy creeps along another road—The Road toLearning. He ascends with more or less facility thelong upward pull of grammar school. Then he reachesa door, and above it is written Latin Grammar. Oyoung pilgrim, the mountains grow very rough! Alsothere is another gate called Algebra, from which he plunges from Latin Ridge into a slough which rivalsthat of the famous Christian. From the algebraic sloughhe struggles (possibly with the help of one who haspassed that way before and is familiar with its twistsand turns). Over History and English does he plod-looking continually up toward his goal, college credit,for to the strongest fall the fruits of battle. Latin Ridgeis becoming almost level, with only a few steep places
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REFLECTIONS. BY EMMA DANIELS, AGE 15- (SILVER BADGE) here and there. English and History are merging intoa broad meadow-land. In the next period of his pilgrimage is opened untohim Modern Languages. Over the slopes of Chem-istry, slaying the dragon Geometry with the swordCommon Sense, onward and upward he climbs, till atlength he passes through the portals of college. On-ward he struggles and still upward, but climbing nowthe mountains upon which he has determined. Thenat last he halts, holding in his hand his diploma, and,standing at the top, looks back—and laughs! A SONG OF SPRING BY HELEN R. OHL (AGE 17) (Silver Badge)Oh, springtime in the South! where at the morn The mocking-bird trills forth a carol gay;Where through the trees the cardinal is borne On flaming wings. And, like a golden ray,The wild canary glows mid dark-green pines; The querulous catbird mews in fragrant haunts; The dogwood all its whitened banners flaunts;The dainty iris grows—its bright gold shines;Its purpl

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