1900 copyrighted text. Smith is credited with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree and as Professor of English, Tabor College. Thomas is credited with a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard and as Master of English, Boston English High School. Preface states the teaching of rhetoric in schools has tied rhetoric to composition. The authors believe in the inductive method and that instruction should be made as definite as possible in matters involving such subtleties of psychology and taste. Literary judgment should be the end for which rhetoric is studied. The text, designed to cover a course of two years, strives for a wise choice of material, a sound arrangement, a proper proportion of parts, simple language, and concise, clear-cut definitions, enforced by copious illustrations and exercises. The work starts with the whole composition rather than beginning with words, ideas being the first consideration. The authors credit the influence of Professor L. A. Sherman of the University of Nebraska, Professor Sophie C. Hart of Wellesley, and Mr. Thomas Hall of Harvard. Part 1 is Composition, with chapters on the theme, the paragraph, the sentence and words. Part 2 is the Laws of Good Use, with chapters on usage, purity and barbarisms, propriety and improprieties, solecisms, the forms of discourse, the qualities of good style and clearness, emphasis, and elegance. Appendices cover punctuation, letter-writing, examples of defective composition, and additional exercises. The Schultz Archive Copy is roughly the complete 312 page text.
The goal of the book "is that of giving training in accuracy of thought, nicety of taste, and finer command of the wizard words that touch imagination." Broken down into various sections of theme and style.
1866 printing of the 1866 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Principal of the Ringgold Grammar School, Philadelphia, and as author of A Grammar of the English Language. A condensed version of the author's larger Grammar for use as a textbook in schools. This text omits orthoepy, orthography, punctuation, and prosody. Large type and numbered paragraphs indicate what is to be memorized and recited. Accompanying the rules and definitions are examples, explanations, and exercises. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
1844 printing of the 1844 copyrighted text. The title page says the book is designed as a sequel to Progressive Exercises in English Composition. As with its predecessor, this text seeks to address two primary obstacles for student writers: obtaining ideas and expressing ideas. The author's approach to obtaining ideas is based on what he terms the principle of association. The exercises herein are not presented as a progressive course, but rather are meant to be selected by teachers as they deem useful. The material varies from sample sentences for punctuation practice, to models of the various kinds of compositions, to long lists of subjects for different kinds of compositions. There are seventy-five lessons in all. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
1835 printing of the second edition of the 1834 copyrighted text. Parker is credited with a Master of Arts, as the Principal of the Franklin Grammar school, and as author of Progressive Exercises in English Composition. Fox is credited with a Master of Arts and as Principal of the Boylston Grammar School. The preface states the text is based on the authors' experience as teachers and purposely uses repetitions and a colloquial style to speak its audience. The "usual arrangement" is not followed. Instead, the pupil is first taught to analyze words and phrases, and etymology and syntax are reserved for after the pupil is familiar with the simpler parts of a sentence. The parsing exercises are designed to give students practice in supplying the ellipses in sentences. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 96 page text.
1841 and 1842 copyrighted texts. The author is credited as "author of the prize essay on education, entitled 'The Teacher's Manual.'" A series of four books designed to connect pure feelings and correct moral ideas with intellectual instruction through narratives accompanied by questions for students. Many of the stories are given titles indicative of the moral theme explored, such as "Cruelty and Oppression" and "Envy, Hatred, and Malice." Pictorial illustrations also appear throughout. The Schultz Archive's copy includes selections from each of the four books, but none of the four is complete.
Paine's only surviving son, Robert Troup Paine, committed suicide in 1851 while at Harvard. Paine and his wife compiled Memoir of Robert Troup Paine, a volume of more than ninety-one of the compositions, theme papers, and letters that his son had written during his schooling, and presented the printed volume, bound in embossed leather, to Harvard - Dictionary of Early American Philosophers. Ed. John R. Shook. This entry in the Schultz Archive is roughly the final third of the memoir pages 335 – 524, plus two brief notes: At a Special Meeting of the Presidential and Fellows of Harvard College in Boston, January 21, 1854; At the Annual Meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, in the Senate Chamber, Boston, January 26, 1854.
Paine's only surviving son, Robert Troup Paine, committed suicide in 1851 while at Harvard. Paine and his wife compiled Memoir of Robert Troup Paine, a volume of more than ninety-one of the compositions, theme papers, and letters that his son had written during his schooling, and presented the printed volume, bound in embossed leather, to Harvard - Dictionary of Early American Philosophers. Ed. John R. Shook. This entry in the Schultz Archive is roughly the second third of the memoir, pages 165 – 333. The Schultz Archive contains the rest of the text in separate entries.
Dated 1852. Paine's only surviving son, Robert Troup Paine, committed suicide in 1851 while at Harvard. Paine and his wife compiled Memoir of Robert Troup Paine, a volume of more than ninety-one of the compositions, theme papers, and letters that his son had written during his schooling, and presented the printed volume, bound in embossed leather, to Harvard - Dictionary of Early American Philosophers. Ed. John R. Shook. This entry in the Schultz Archive is roughly the first third of the memoir, up to page 164. The Schultz Archive contains the rest of the text in separate entries.
A raw dataset produced using the clot on a suture experimental set up in the Holland lab (previously published in Bader 2015 & other articles). Data gathered and further analyzed using MATLAB 2012b.
