OUR QUERY COLUMN.
1. How do you prevent truancy?
2. How do you prevent tardiness?
3. Do you allow anything but failures in lessons to be deducted from scholarship?
4. What is your standard in scholarship for promotion?
5. How much time, and in what manner, do you devote to religious exercises in schools wholly attended by resident pupils?
Answers to Queries in June Missionary.
Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary (Latham’s Edition, 1866-74, 4to, 4 vols.), probably surpasses all others in the English book market. Richardson’s is an accepted standard, especially in matters of definition and derivation. Walker’s is still a standard in pronunciation. Of American dictionaries, Webster’s leads in England.
Khedive is pronounced Kay-deeve.
So far as we know, Beaufort, S. C., alone is pronounced Bew-fort. Other places of the name, Bo-fort.