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"Home study" Quotes from Famous Books

... the London M.D., and to an ambitious young fellow it was hard to be satisfied with a provincial degree. The thirty-mile motor ride to and from Birkshaw soon lost its charm, and the difficulties of home study in the evenings were great in a bungalow with thin partition walls and a family not always disposed to quiet. As a rule, he kept his feelings to himself, but he went about with a depressed look, and got into a habit of lifting his eyebrows which was ...

— A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

... a corner of the davenport, Ted settled down to his Home Study; plain geometry, Cicero, and the agonizing metaphors ...

— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... we have kept you so shut up here in this retired place for home study, instead of parting with you to send you to one of the great schools, that in some things you ...

— The Young Castellan - A Tale of the English Civil War • George Manville Fenn

... sure and tell your youngsters to bear in mind that opportunities for home study on their own accounts are multiplying around them day by day, and that in taking advantage of them they will not only find great enjoyment and add to their stock of knowledge, but also will come upon hundreds of ways in which to amuse their friends, ...

— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 • Various

... there has been far more talk of eyeglasses than of removable conditions that cause eye strain. The women principals of New York City have sounded an alarm, and urge more attention to light and to reading position, more rest, more play, more hand work, less home study and less eye work at school, rather than more eyeglasses to conceal temporarily the effect of abusing children's eyes. Putting glasses on children without changing causal conditions is like giving alcohol to consumptives. The feeling of relief is ...

— Civics and Health • William H. Allen