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Sanders' High School Reader
Sanders' High School Reader by Charles Walton Sanders
The final reading program with more elocution exercises. The standards by which the choices were made are laid out in the preface.
So again the interesting thing to the modern reader is probably the choices. Scientific, religious, political, historical -- poems, speeches, essays --
The religious is sometimes generically theistic, sometimes Christian, sometimes specifically Protestant (in a passage where it is explicitly stated that the contemplative vocation is non-existent).
The final reading program with more elocution exercises. The standards by which the choices were made are laid out in the preface.
So again the interesting thing to the modern reader is probably the choices. Scientific, religious, political, historical -- poems, speeches, essays --
The religious is sometimes generically theistic, sometimes Christian, sometimes specifically Protestant (in a passage where it is explicitly stated that the contemplative vocation is non-existent).