Word: mcguffey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. Edward Mansfield McGuffey, 74, of Elmhurst, N. Y., rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church, authority on canon law, son of the late Alexander McGuffey (coauthor of famed McGuffey Readers); in Elmhurst...
...Book.* The red brick schoolhouse, copy books, McGuffey's readers; Rockefeller's millions and Roosevelt's teeth; Langley and the Wright Brothers building flimsy miracles; Hill and Harriman fighting for a railroad; automobiles and oil wells and Andrew Carnegie, "The Octopus," The Jungle and dirty canned meat; "The Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight," "Old Dan Tucker," "Buffalo Gals" and "The Man with the Hoe." These are a few of the elements of history in the first years of the century; they are a few of the elements in Volume II of Mark Sullivan's Our Times...
...first twelve chapters concern the source of the ideas, the opinions, the prejudices which now, being the common property of every American mind, explain the mental character of the U. S. The most important book in the schools was McGuffey's Eclectic Reader (of which there have been 122,000,000 copies sold). McGuffey, a gentle old pedant who received $1,000 for each of the six Readers in his series, remained a shadowy figure to his multitudinous public; for his death in 1873 no literary reviews, no editorial pages were boxed in heavy black. He remained, even...
William Holmes McGuffey, born in Washington County, Pa., in 1800, son of an Indian scout of Scotch descent, attended the Old Stone Academy at Darlington, Pa., and .Washington College. He won fame as "mental philosopher" of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and at Ohio University (then as now at Athens, Ohio) and the University of Virginia. He formulated Ohio's school laws, organized Ohio's teachers; married twice, "preached 3,000 sermons but never wrote one"* and was as famed in person as in publication...
...prayed loudly that God would send her boy a way of getting an education. The road past the McGuffey cabin was thickly carpeted with dust so that Mrs. McGuffey was not interrupted in her prayer by the hoofbeats of a horse that was approaching. Moreover, the dust so muffled the hoofbeats that the horseman, a clergyman who had just founded the Old Stone Academy, could distinctly hear every word Mrs. McGuffey said. Pausing long enough to understand thoroughly, he rode softly off to the next cabin, learned Mrs. McGuffey's name, rode back, answered her prayer...