Category: Biographies
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Probably none of her public work gave Miss Buss more unqualified satisfaction than the Head-mistresses’ Association, of which the first germ seems to be contained in a passage f...
18. CHAPTER XI.“That human beings, whether male or female, come into the world not merely to ‘get a living,’ but to live; that the life they live depends largely on what they know and care abo...
26. CHAPTER VI.“Of feeble knees the strengthener, The stay of timid hearts, Does all her might go out with her Who now to rest departs? Nay, for the children of her love, To their full stature...
3. BOOK III.Page 1, line 2, for “July 29” read “July 18.” Page 29, line 12, for “lighted” read “lifted.” Page 39, line 25, for “to play” read “for play.” Page 111, line 27, for “lady on” re...
12. CHAPTER V.“There is now no such thing as a ‘Woman’s Education Question’ apart from that of education generally; and the real question which has still to be fought for many a long year, I...
24. CHAPTER IV.“To _have_ friends one must _be_ a friend,” was true of this life on both sides. She _was_ a friend, and she _had_ friends in abundance. Of her women-friends we have had full pr...
14. CHAPTER VII.“I have no liking for large boarding-schools. My ideal of education is large, well-conducted day schools, with all the life and discipline that numbers alone can give; not to sp...
20. CHAPTER XIII.She always knew exactly what she was doing and what she intended to do. In the expressive colloquialism, she was “all there,” and she was always there. Whatever she knew she kne...
13. CHAPTER VI.“The relationship between head-mistress and teachers was surely most unique, for Miss Buss seemed never to tire of having her teachers about her, and even in the holidays they w...
5. CHAPTER II.“O’er wayward childhood would’st thou hold firm rule And sun thee in the light of happy faces, Love, hope, and patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let the...
19. CHAPTER XII.“The science of education, so little thought of, so contemptuously ignored, is the crowning science of all, for it is the application of all the sciences to the production of th...
8. CHAPTER I.My first remembrance of Miss Buss—dating from October, 1870—is one that will come up very vividly to all who remember her Tuesdays’ “at home,” at Myra Lodge, and who will recall...
4. CHAPTER I.The record of the life of Frances Mary Buss includes within it, in brief, the story of the modern educational movement, in which she took so leading a part. It is not the less a...
22. CHAPTER II.The greatest delights from travel came to Miss Buss from the two extremes of North and South—extremes which yet touch—Sweden and Italy, the two most distinctively artistic lands...
16. CHAPTER IX.“No one who has been brought into contact with Miss Buss, no one who has even seen her portrait, can have failed to be struck by her transparent integrity, her absolute sincerit...
11. CHAPTER IV.But, however it might be borne, the disappointment was bitter, more especially in the proof given of the absolute indifference of the public to the whole question. Prejudice mig...
6. CHAPTER III.“You were the sower of a deathless seed, The reaper of a glorious harvest, too; But man is greater than his greatest deed, And nobler than your noblest work were you!” EMILY HIC...
9. CHAPTER II.With the success of this first public meeting, it was hoped that the tide had turned. On February 15, 1871, a drawing-room meeting at the house of Mr. E. C. Robins gave still fu...
15. CHAPTER VIII.“The vocation of a teacher is an awful one. You cannot do her real good; she will do others unspeakable harm if she is not aware of its awfulness. Merely to supply her with nece...
10. CHAPTER III.“No man will give his son a stone if he asks for bread; but thousands of men have given their daughters diamonds when they asked for books, and coiled serpents of vanity and dis...
21. CHAPTER I.Those who never saw Miss Buss in real holiday mood could not be said to know her at all. As an educationalist she was instructive, admirable, awe-inspiring; but as a friend and...
25. CHAPTER V.“One who never turned his back, but marched straightforward; Never doubted clouds would break; Never deemed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph; Held we fall to rise...
23. CHAPTER III.When we think of the vivid impressions of men and things that we might have had from one who enjoyed such varied experience, we cannot but regret that the press and hurry of her...
7. CHAPTER IV.“A mother, though no infant at thy breast Was nursed, no children clung about thy knee; Yet shall the generations call thee blest, Mother of nobler women yet to be.” _To F. M. B._
2. BOOK II.1. BOOK I.