. Curious schools. r ff iIKW iff 11 .^ Kjsl Hi \Ks, If--?- i ^ ? ?..?.?? ? 1W ,L - 0 IO ? ? ? =. Some Indian Schools. possibly behind — these studious young Cherokees: First Term.—Geology, Latin — Cicero—Greek orGerman, Mental Philosophy. Second Term.— Political Economy and Civil Gov-ernment, Latin — Horace — Greek or German, MoralScience. There is a weekly drill in elocution through thecourse; and the students are required to write essaysand orations, and be ready to debate a question atthe meeting of the literary ^ club, whenever called upon. After the exercises in the chapel, we went into t
. Curious schools. r ff iIKW iff 11 .^ Kjsl Hi \Ks, If--?- i ^ ? ?..?.?? ? 1W ,L - 0 IO ? ? ? =. Some Indian Schools. possibly behind — these studious young Cherokees: First Term.—Geology, Latin — Cicero—Greek orGerman, Mental Philosophy. Second Term.— Political Economy and Civil Gov-ernment, Latin — Horace — Greek or German, MoralScience. There is a weekly drill in elocution through thecourse; and the students are required to write essaysand orations, and be ready to debate a question atthe meeting of the literary ^ club, whenever called upon. After the exercises in the chapel, we went into theyard to see some little fellows practise target-shoot-ing with their bows and arrows. We wedged somepennies into split sticks, driving them into the ground,and, measuring off the distance, asked the boys toshoot. One of the smallest boys won both the pen-nies in the first charge, and several afterwards, to thedisappointment of his comrades, though they did notgrumble and cry out foul play ! as I have heardwhite boys sometimes. One pleasant trait of charac-ter which Cherokee b
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