Word: mcguffey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coat and stovepipe hat, a tall young man slouched in the saddle one fall afternoon in 1826 while his horse ambled into the little village of Oxford, Ohio. Even as he rode he read, and his saddlebags bulged with volumes of Livy and Horace, Ovid and Xenophon. William Holmes McGuffey, newly appointed professor of ancient languages at Oxford's Miami University, was exactly the type of sobersided teacher the fledgling university wanted. Last week, in a high-ceilinged room of Miami University's Alumni Library, 300 members of the McGuffey Society came to dedicate a museum...
...textbooks, McGuffey presented an ambitious package: reading material for children of all ages, a fine anthology of old favorites, and a stern, explicit code of morals. Before they finally faded from U.S. schools in the early 1900s, the six Eclectic Readers and the Eclectic Spelling Book (edited by Brother Alexander McGuffey) sold some 130 million copies, probably had more influence on U.S. literary tastes and moral standards than any other book except the Bible...
Last week the members of the McGuffey Society inspected the fruits of nearly half a century's search for McGuffey memorabilia. They examined the octagonal revolving desk at which the Readers were written and the statue of the master himself, surrounded by children dressed in roundabouts and pantalets. The books in the collection, largely gathered by Dean Minnich, ran to nearly 400 editions, including one Japanese translation and some Southern reprints from Reconstruction days...
...President's week had a lighter side, too. He pored over the famed McGuffey Readers, of which he had read only the first in school. An admirer had sent him a set of the six readers as a gift. He would find that the hero in a number of the old favorites is named Harry...
...such, he was a completely individualistic and often baffling combination of Daddy Warbucks, Captain Midnight, Scrooge and Salesman Sam. A product of McGuffey's Reader and the International Correspondence Schools, he had a fierce faith in God and in the attitudes and platitudes (an honest day's work for an honest day's pay) of the last century. He was a living, brave and battered testimonial to his credo...