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  • Grammar and Usage in Textbooks on English

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    University of Wisconsin Bureau of Educational Research Bulletin, Number 14, August 1933. The author is credited as Assistant Professor in the Teaching of English, University of Wisconsin. A similar work to Sterling A. Leonard's The Doctrine of Correctness in English Usage, 1700-1800 but for the 20th century. The chapters include: general introduction, theories of correctness in the nineteenth century, current theories of correctness, prescriptive grammar, prescriptive syntax, prescriptive usage, and recommendations for the writing of textbooks in English. The study purports to show the confusion between grammar purists and grammar liberalists and the unfortunate influence this confusion has had on the teaching of English. It also seeks to trace the origin and development of traditional rules and statements regarding usage and to show that these contrast with the facts of past and present usage. The study analyzes 16 textbooks in grammar and composition. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 172 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Pooley, Robert C. (Robert Cecil), 1898-1978
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    06/09/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/10/2020
    Date Created:
    1933
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The History of Composition Teaching in Secondary Schools before 1900

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    Author's Ph.D. thesis at Cornell. Author's vita describes her education and teaching experience, including her experience as supervisor of practice teaching in English at the Ithaca High School. Introduction begins by claiming the unpopularity of composition among students, and by stating the study doesn't make a contribution to methods of composition teaching, but seeks to add a page to the history of American education. It addresses: when and where English composition first taught in American secondary schools, the rapidity of its introduction, when it became recognized as part of the curriculum, and methods used from 1750 to 1900. The chapters are: lack of composition teaching before 1750, the introduction of composition, the extension of composition teaching, 1820–1900, the influence of college entrance requirements on composition teaching, the development of method in composition teaching, and the conclusion. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Besig, Emma M. S., 1902-
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/26/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/20/2020
    Date Created:
    1935
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Correlation of Studies Report of sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifteen

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    1895 printing. Brown in the author of the annotations to this correlation of studies in elementary education. The committee members include William T. Harris (as the chairman), the United States Commissioner of Education; and superintendents from such localities as Kansas City, MO; Saint Paul, MN; Cleveland, OH; and Brooklyn, NY. The main sections are: correlation of studies; the course of study—educational values; the school program; methods and organization; and statements of dissent from some of the committee members. There is also an appendix titled: The Old Psychology vs. The New. Some of the topics covered in the first section are: logical order of topics and branches, symmetrical whole of studies in the world of human learning, psychological symmetry—the whole mind, correlations of pupil's course of study with the world in which he lives—his spiritual and natural environment. The annotations reflect on and evaluate the contents of the report. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Brown, George P. (George Pliny), 1836-1910
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/26/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/21/2020
    Date Created:
    1895
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Teaching the Language-Arts: Speech, Reading, Composition

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    1896 printing of 1896 copyrighted work. Part of the International Education Series. The author is credited with both a Ph.D. and an LL.D., as Professor of the Science and the Art of Teaching in the University of Michigan, and as the author of several books of diverse subject matter. W. T. Harris writes the editor's preface: A collection of thoughts on language, influences include Aristotle and Quintilian and Spencer and Lowell, covering its use, its growth, the study of its mechanics, its grammatical and logical structures, the order of mastering its use in speaking, reading, and writing. The discussion covers primary, grammar, high school, and college instruction. Chapters IV, V, and VI relay facts drawn from child study. Chapters VII, VIII, IX, X, and XIII discuss the higher function of literature. Chapter VIII discusses the use of paraphrasing to aid comprehension. The author's preface speaks back to the Harvard Committee's reports on students' writing skills. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Hinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron), 1837-1900
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/26/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/28/2020
    Date Created:
    1896
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Teaching of English Grammar: History and Method

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    1901 printing of the 1901 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a B.A. and as Professor of English in the Michigan State Normal College in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Argues for the importance of historical study for scholarship in the grammar of modern English. Based in the study of English grammars over a span of two hundred years. Recommends the work of O. F. Emerson, A. C. Champneys, and Lounsbury. Strives to move away from grammar instruction based on memorization to instruction based on induction. Includes "test questions" at the end of each lecture. The four lectures: History of English Grammar Teaching, Descriptive Grammar and Scientific Grammar, Purpose and Method, False Syntax. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Barbour, F. A. (Florus Alonzo), 1856-
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/26/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/20/2020
    Date Created:
    1901
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Monographs on Education in the United States No. 18: Education of the Negro

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    Text copyrighted 1900 and 1910. Author is credited as Principal of the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. A text on the history of the education of black Americans that begins by relating the progress of black Americans with President McKinley's words on the evolution of the country. Sections cover development of popular education, education of negroes before 1860, public school education in the south after the war, ground work education in the south, bequests for southern education, present educational status. Includes 8 statistical tables. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 44 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/26/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/14/2020
    Date Created:
    1776
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Monographs on Education in the United States No. 19: Education of the Indian

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    1899 copyrighted text. Hailmann is credited as Superintendent of Schools, Dayton, Ohio. Butler is credited as Professor of Philosophy and Education in Columbia University, New York. Title page states this Department of Education text is for the United States Commission to the Paris Exposition of 1900. Introduction describes history of white and Indian engagement as driven by both greed and Christian philanthropy (on the part of whites). The report goes on to cover the prior work in Indian education by Reverend John Eliot, Reverend John Sergeant, and Reverend Eleazer Wheelock. Other sections of the introduction cover persistence of spirit of work, shortcomings, period of inaction, resumption of work, decay of missionary effort, and present organization (which covers reservation and non-reservation boarding schools, industrial training schools, Haskell institue, Carlisle, contract schools, and supervision). It ends with a conclusion and outlook section that includes a section on schools of Indian territory. Finally, it features eight tables of statistics related to the attendance and cost of various Indian schools. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the full report of thirty-six pages.
    Creator/Author:
    Butler, Nicholas Murray (editor) and Hailmann, W. N. (William Nicholas), 1836-1920
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/26/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/24/2020
    Date Created:
    1889
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Theory of American Education

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    1872 copyrighted text. Published by the Journal of Education. The author is credited as Superintendent Public Schools, St. Louis. This text read at the National Teachers' Association, held at Cleveland, Aug. 19, 1870. Written in two chapters: Ch. I—Education in the Past; Ch. II—The Present and Future of Education. The text covers the history of printing, textbooks, circulation, and pedagogy. It includes sections on nature vs. human nature, the realm of mind, the function of education, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, oral vs. textbook instruction, and the spirit of the age. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Harris, William Torrey, 1835-1909
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/26/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/24/2020
    Date Created:
    1872
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Monographs on Education in the United States No. 7: Education of Women

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    1899 copyrighted text. Title page states this Department of Education text is for the United States Commission to the Paris Exposition of 1900. The author is credited as President of Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. A study of higher education of women in the United States based on the past thirty years which finds that women's education is primarily to train mental faculties and only secondarily to provide professional or special education to equip women to be self-supporting. Includes sections on coeducation, independent colleges for women, professional education (including graduate instruction), occupations of college women, coeducation versus separate education, and curriculum. Graphs and tables are included to illustrate statistics. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 40 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 and Butler, Nicholas Murray (editor)
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/26/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/14/2020
    Date Created:
    1899
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Boston Public Latin School

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    1881 printing of 1880 copyrighted text. This history of the Boston Public Latin School (the oldest educational institution in the country) was written for the Harvard Register. The book is based on manuscripts by early pupils, as well as Gould's article on the Latin School; Dr. Dimmock's Memorial Address on Dr. Gardner,;manuscript reports to the Boston Latin-School Association, mostly from Rev. Dr. Hale; John T. Hassam's Memoir of Ezekiel Cheever; and editorial articles in the Boston papers. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the full 24 pages of text.
    Creator/Author:
    Jenks, Henry F. (Henry Fitch), 1842-1920
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/26/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/29/2020
    Date Created:
    1881
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0