American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1959 - 140 pages |
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Clinton Hartley Grattan. omy is better established by experience than that a lib- eral support of religious and ... establishing new ones . It has been a subject of general regret that public libraries , after a short time , fall into ...
Clinton Hartley Grattan. omy is better established by experience than that a lib- eral support of religious and ... establishing new ones . It has been a subject of general regret that public libraries , after a short time , fall into ...
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... established , replacing them by others that he thinks more useful . But he shall not have power to abolish or to fail to establish those courses of lectures in favor of which I have herein expressed a wish or desire that they should be ...
... established , replacing them by others that he thinks more useful . But he shall not have power to abolish or to fail to establish those courses of lectures in favor of which I have herein expressed a wish or desire that they should be ...
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... establish- ment of the Boston Public Library in 1852. The peculiar interest of the two letters which are par- tially quoted below is the directness of the connec- tion the writers established between the proposed library they were ...
... establish- ment of the Boston Public Library in 1852. The peculiar interest of the two letters which are par- tially quoted below is the directness of the connec- tion the writers established between the proposed library they were ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION By C Hartley Grattan | 7 |
A Mechanic on Adult Education | 20 |
On Lectures for Moral and Intellectual | 37 |
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