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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Reasons for the suggestion of certain alterations in the Examination statute lately submitted ... by the public examiners
Author: Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn
Author: Rodney HessingerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn exposes the fears expressed by elders about young people in the early American republic. Those authors, educators, and moral reformers who aspired to guide youth into respectable stations perceived new dangers in the decades following independence. Battling a range of seducers in the burgeoning marketplace of early America, from corrupt peers to licentious prostitutes, from pornographic authors to firebrand preachers, these self-proclaimed moral guardians crafted advice and institutions for youth, hoping to guide them safely away from harm and toward success. By penning didactic novels and advice books while building reform institutions and colleges, they sought to lead youth into dutiful behavior. But, thrust into the market themselves, these moral guides were forced to compromise their messages to find a popular audience. Nonetheless, their calls for order did have lasting impact. In urban centers in the Northeast, middle-class Americans became increasingly committed to their notions of chastity, piety, and hard work. Focusing on popular publications and large urban centers, Hessinger draws a portrait of deeply troubled reformers, men and women, who worried incessantly about the vulnerability of youth to the perils of prostitution, promiscuity, misbehavior, and revolt. Benefiting from new insights in cultural history, Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn looks at the way the categories of gender, age, and class took rhetorical shape in the early republic. In trying to steer young adults away from danger, these advisors created values that came to define the emerging middle class of urban America.
Examinations
Author: Robert John MontgomeryPublisher: [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Category : Examinations
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Science and Religion
Author: Pietro CorsiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521242452
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Science and Religion assesses the impact of social, political and intellectual change upon Anglican circles, with reference to Oxford University in the decades that followed the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. More particularly, the career of Baden Powell, father of the more famous founder of the Boy Scout movement, offers material for an important case-study in intellectual and political reorientation: his early militancy in right-wing Anglican movements slowly turned to a more tolerant attitude towards radical theological, philosophical and scientific trends. During the 1840s and 1850s, Baden Powell became a fearless proponent of new dialogues in transcendentalism in theology, positivism in philosophy, and pre-Darwinian evolutionary theories in biology. He was for instance the first prominent Anglican to express full support for Darwin's Origin of Species. Analysis of his many publications, and of his interaction with such contemporaries as Richard Whately, John Henry and Francis Newman, Robert Chambers, William Benjamin Carpenter, George Henry Lewes and George Eliot, reveals hitherto unnoticed dimensions of mid-nineteenth-century British intellectual and social life.
An Historical Study of Examinations and Grading Systems in Early American Universities
Author: Mary Lovett SmallwoodPublisher:
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Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to the University of Oxford
Author: Edward Harold CordeauxPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon P.
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Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
The William W. Clary Oxford Collection
Author: Honnold Library for the Associated Colleges. William W. Clary Oxford CollectionPublisher:
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Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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