Word: mcguffey
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...furthering the U. S. history he is writing,* and knowing that his newspaper (New York Herald Tribune) would be indulgent, and also knowing a quaint topic when he sees one, Mark Sullivan frankly substituted for political trivia a discussion and some queries about a U. S. institution called McGuffey's Readers. Were they still extant? If not, when had they died...
...Senator had told Mr. Sullivan that no other influence had molded his (the Senator's) character and career so power fully as McGuffey's. Mr. Sullivan ventured to say that many of the Senator's 95 colleagues would feel the same way if quizzed...
...Sullivan estimated loosely that some 75,000,000 McGuffey's were at one time or another be tween 1835 and 1900 in the hands of some 20,000,000 U. S. school children. But just when and just where, "like the last passenger pigeon," was a McGuffey's last seen and used...
...Sullivan made it sound as though he had . expended much time and effort on McGuffey's. "There also was a man named McGuffey," he said. "I have learned enough to be able to say with some confidence that William Holmes McGuffey had a larger influence . . . than, for example, several Presi dents of the United States...
There were two McGuffeys and their series (five times revised) was last reprinted by the American Book Co. (Cincinnati) in 1901. In 1835, Dr. William Holmes McGuffey, then president and professor of "Moral and Intellectual Philosophy" at Cincinnati College, was asked by the Messrs. Truman & Smith, local publishers, to prepare a series of eclectic readings for the young. This he did, in 18 months, paying one of his students $5 to copy out the selections...