Word: mcguffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roared at his rebellious protégé, William Howard Taft, most U. S. citizens knew instantly what he meant. Through the latter half of the 19th Century most of the nation's schoolchildren learned about Meddlesome Mattie, many another moral, immoral or amoral character in William Holmes McGuffey's famed series of Eclectic Readers. Today McGuffey's Eclectics have vanished from most schoolrooms but William Holmes McGuffey lives on as the hero of a nostalgic cult unique in educational history...
...Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, where Educator McGuffey once taught classics, some 3,000 members of the Federated McGuffey Societies of America last week repaired to celebrate the Readers' 100th anniversary. There McGuffeyites settled down to enjoy a pageant, a square dance, a barbecue, speeches. Said Ohio's onetime (1929-31) Governor Myers Cooper: "McGuffey, if living today, would be a conservative!" Said Fred L. Black, speechmaker for absent Henry Ford who collects rare Readers, restored the crumbling log-cabin McGuffey birthplace near Claysville, Pa.: "Abraham Lincoln, William Holmes McGuffey and Thomas Edison are the three Americans Henry...
...last week was Dr. Walter Reed, conqueror of yellow fever, with 57 votes. Economist Henry George scored 56, Suffragist Susan B. Anthony 55, Author Henry David Thoreau 54. Louisa May Alcott with 28 showed her heels to Herman Melville with 24. Far down the list were William Holmes McGuffey (McGuffey's Readers), 17, and Jefferson Davis...
...owed to those books a love for good reading. The simplest virtues, enforced by attractive tables and essays, sphorisms and short quotations, helped to form the character of the school children of three generations. That 20,000 were present recently at the dedication of the memorial to William Holmes McGuffey on the farm in western Pennsylvania where he was born is an eloquent testimonial to the worth of his work. Henry Ford honored himself and rendered a public service in promoting the project...
Good reading, well selected, varied in mood and subject, an introduction to the great literature of the world--these facts account for the fame of that old-time Presbyterian college professor--"McGuffey." Those were the happy days. Boston Herald...