The book Ye Amherst Girl of Ye Olden Tyme was written by author Alice Morehouse Walker Here you can read free online of Ye Amherst Girl of Ye Olden Tyme book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Ye Amherst Girl of Ye Olden Tyme a good or bad book?
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This build- ing, on the muddy crooked street, consisted of four walls, with doors and windows, built at the least expense pos- sible. Around three sides extended desks, in front of which were rows of wooden benches, and on these, with dangling feet, the young Puritan struggled with tasks seldom required to-day of advanced college stu- dents. The modern text book with its large print and beautiful pictures, designed to make the path to wisdom broad and easy, was then unknown. From Gibbon's Decli...ne and Fall, which served as a reader, to those old works on Mathematics, fitted to puzzle a modern profes- sor, all was hard, knotty and obscure. And yet, from out the district school, that place of trial and discomfort, what splendid powers of intellect and will came forth, what abundance of mental and moral energy issued, pro- Of Ye Olden Tyme 2^ ducing for the world that type of character upon which rests the structure of our civiUzation. Books of any kind at that time were rare and expen- sive, especially books for the young.
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