Do any Seniors remember?

Yes, in 4th and 5th grade we had those old desks. No ink well anymore but the hole was there. And those fountain pens were the best - as long as you didn't spill the ink while filling them. They came out later with cartridges you could put in specially designed fountain pens. Made a lovely script.

Yes I remember them well , I had hours of fun playing with the ink wells which were made from something like Bakelite.

The top screwed into the main body of the well and I discovered that I could put a length of black thread into the well and then screw the lid down, then fed the thread through the gap which ran along the top of the desk lid , I then could pull on the thread which was concealed under the lid and the ink well would jump out of the round hole that it was seated in , then further pulling and it would creep along the width of the desk . As if by magic.

I had some of my class mates mesmerized by my magic ink well, after all it was primary school and some of the kids weren't that bright !

Thanks for bringing back that memory.Isn't it a pity life is not as simple nowadays, whiteboards and computerised blackboards no sign of the yellow coated chalk and no minature milk bottles to drink, sickly warm in the summer months and had to be un frozen in the winter on top of the radiator until the ice thawed... oh bliss

I remember when we had little wells in the holes and one of the students went around with an ink can with a long spout to refill every morning and we used straight pens with scratchy nibs. I didn't use a fountain pen until highschool and it was an Esterbrook which I still have . We had to sit down gently in those days or the well would spill out in the desk behind us.

We also used to practice penmanship and our handwriting was so nice and legible.

I remember the ink wells, but no ink. We were required to bring a fountain pen. If you didn't know, all fountain pen nibs are made for right-handed people. Being left-handed I had awful time.

I remember the ink wells, bottles and the wooden pen with the nib inserted in it. I don't remember anyone in grade school even owning a fountain pen. That would have been an unfair advantage in timed written tests. LOL

Windy, we had the holes in the desk, but we didn't have the ink Wells or the fountain pens, My husband remembers using them and they taught them the Palmer method of hand writing, . Some of the tales he tell of the trouble he had with fountain pens , i am glad we didn't have to use them

He didn't change the laws. He fulfilled them. The laws in the OT were given to the Jewish nation. Not to any other people. They were part of a covenant or contract between the Jews and Jehovah God. They were to be his people. Sadly they disobeyed and actually rebelled against God. Finally they killed God's own son. By killing God's son they brought an end to the laws and the contract they had with Jehovah. Before Jesus died he made a new covenant or contract with all his faithful followers no matter what race or nation they were. This was established first with Jesus' apostles on the night of the last supper. Jesus gave us two laws to follow. To love God with all your heart, soul and mind and to love your neighbor as yourself. If you obey these two laws then you would not be breaking any of the others. You have already answered your own question by posting the verses in Matthew. Read those verses again. 1. He fulfilled the laws. When you fulfill something then it is done is it not? You fulfill a contract means you completed that contract. The laws were to be obeyed until the messiah came. Jesus was the messiah. NOTE: What does Paul tell the Roman congregation? Rom. 7:6, 7: “Now we have been discharged from the Law, because we have died to that by which we were being held fast . . . What, then, shall we say? Is the Law sin? Never may that become so! Really I would not have come to know sin if it had not been for the Law; and, for example, I would not have known covetousness if the Law had not said: ‘You must not covet.’” (Here, immediately after writing that Jewish Christians had been “discharged from the Law,” what example from the Law does Paul cite? The Tenth Commandment, thus showing that it was included in the Law from which they had been discharged.)

I'm a Baby Boomer & our desks in grade school & Jr. High, had the ink wells, but we never used them. When we were ready to write in ink, we had to buy a pen that had the disposable cartridge in it. It was neater than filling the pen from an ink bottle.

You're kidding !!!! That's awesome to keep something so long. We had the desks with the ink wells, but I was in the first grade then and we didn't use them.My aunts told stories about them though. Some boys were pretty honery I guess, especially if a girl had long hair. Back then I think they all probably did.

I remember the desks. Fortunately, by the time I was using ink, Sheaffer (I think) came out with the cartridge pen.