Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 555
ions, rather than in an elaboration of general 520 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY ideals. Administration, with its manifold problems, has appealed strongly tothe American genius ; and consequently the greatest names of the century arethose of men who have devoted themselves to some… … DR. THOMAS AT5NOLD. OF RUGBY, ENGLAND.(Courtesy of The School Journal, New York.) establishment of a system of free and public schools. Like most of thenations intellectual impulses, this spirit seems to have come from New Eng-land. There, the democratic ideals of the people led to an early…
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