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GRADED MEMORY SELECTIONS

Arranged by

S. D. WATERMAN,
Superintendent of Schools, Berkeley, Cal.

J. W. McCLYMONDS,
Superintendent of Schools, Oakland, Cal.

C. C. HUGHES,
Superintendent of Schools, Alameda, Cal.







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by Educational Publishing Company
1903.




PREFACE.


It is unfortunately true that the terms education and culture are not
synonymous. Too often we find that the children in our public schools,
while possessed of the one, are signally lacking in the other. This is
a state of things that cannot be remedied by teaching mere facts. The
Greeks, many years ago, found the true method of imparting the latter
grace and