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Show Slates Banished From Iioston Schools. The reasons assigned by the school committee for tho discontinuance of slates, slate pencils and sponges in the, public schools and the substitution of paper, lead pencils and rubber erasers in their places are as follows: First. A light gray mark upon a slightly darker gray surface is more or less indistinct and trying to the eye-tight. eye-tight. Seoond. The resistance of the hard pencil upon the hard slate is trying to the muscles, and the resistance to which the muscles are thus trained must be overcome when beginning to write with pencil or pen upon paper. Third, The use of slates, slate pencils pen-cils and sponges is a very uncleanly custom cus-tom and leads to and establishes very uncleanly habits. Boston Herald. |