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...soon became one of its most active and influential leaders. She has spoken for her cause all over the country and is very prominent in social reform measures in her native state, Kentucky, having for many years held the presidency of the Civic League of Lexington, a non-partisan association of men and women which interests itself in reform legislation. While in this office, she was largely instrumental in obtaining the passage of the compulsory schooling law in Kentucky and also a law providing for the establishment of juvenile courts. She likewise succeeded in instituting manual training in the public...
...first group is composed of the old ethical type of teachers, men of great intellectual distinction, but whose ways of teaching were more partisan than those of today. The most famous man, and real representative of this group, was Mark Hopkins, former president of Williams College. He had the secret of subtle power which the leading writers and great men of that day tried in vain to analyze. With his skill in handling individual men and his direct impressive methods of teaching he truly represented the old-fashioned dignity, simplicity, and reverence which pervaded the class room in the early...
...which to value present day tendencies, but Mr. Sessions barely ventures on this dangerous ground, suggesting merely, in the course of the article, three critiria--a sensuous appeal, unity of conception, and a harmonic scheme that gives enjoyment. Instead he sets before us the radical, the conservative, and the partisan, counsels us to be none of them, and leaves us with excellent but vague advice. A "radical conservative" would, in all possibility, have ventured further...
...partisan religions and sects, of every names and form in the whole world today, are slowly dying of dry rot as recently has affirmed a noted clergyman of one of the oldest and largest of the Christian Denominations. Nothing can save them except the cosmopolitan and truly catholic teachings of world-Religion as set forth in this volume...
...limited number of catholic spirited World-educators--college professors and students, teachers and preachers, editors and authors, lecturers and reformers who are known to be cosmopolitan in thought and method. An essential condition of all benefactions to public libraries, etc., by Mr. Carnegie is the entire disuse of partisan or sectarian names and dogmas; and the Presentation Copies are proffered in the same cosmopolitan and genuinely catholic spirit. Those who are not and are determined not to become cosmopolitan and catholic spirited in this sense will find no interest in either of these volumes, whether accepted as Presentation Copies...