Author: Henry Barrington TristramPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Loretto School, Past and Present
Author: Henry Barrington TristramPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Good Hearts
Author: Suellen M. HoyPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252073010
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Suellen Hoy's Good Hearts describes and analyzes the activities andcontributions of Catholic nuns in Chicago. Beginning with the arrival ofwomen-religious in 1846 and ending with the sisters' social activism inthe 1960s, Good Hearts traces the development and evolution of thesisters' work and ministry that included education, health care, andsocial services. Contrary to conventional portrayals of religious asreclusive and conservative, the nuns in Good Hearts are revealed asdynamic, powerful agents of change. Catholic sisters lived on the edge, serving sick and poor immigrants as well as those racially andreligiously unlike themselves, such as the uneducated black migrantsfrom the South
Patterson's American Education
Author: Homer L. PattersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Handbook of American Private Schools
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private schools
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
This handbook aims to be a guide to the best private schools of the country. It has been undertaken with the parent especially in mind, but it is hoped that it may be of value to school and college authorities and all others interested in the subject. It is believed that this Handbook is the first volume which attempts a critical and discriminating treatment of the private schools of the country. It is an endeavor to classify the schools on their merits -- at least a step, it is hoped, toward eventual standardization. - Editor's foreword.
A Handbook of Private Schools for American Boys and Girls
Author: Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School
Author: J. A. ManganPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0714680435
Category : Athletics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schoools. The obsession has become known as athleticism. This is a study of the games ethos which dominate the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys.
A Handbook of American Private Schools
Author: Directory of Catholic Colleges and Schools
Author: Patterson's College and School Directory of the United States and Canada
Author: Homer L. PattersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Author: