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Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. [4] His father was a farmer without much money. Mann was the great-grandson of Samuel Man. [5]From age ten to age twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, [6] but he made use of the Franklin Public Library, the first public library in America.
Sir Horace (Horatio) Mann, 1st Baronet KB (8 August 1706 – 6 November 1786), was a long-standing British resident and diplomat in Florence. The Tribuna of the Uffizi by Johann Zoffany . Place cursor over artworks or persons to identify them.
The Latin Library is a website that collects public domain Latin texts. [1] It is run by William L. Carey, adjunct professor of Latin and Roman Law at George Mason University . [ 2 ] The texts have been drawn from different sources, are not intended for research purposes nor as substitutes for critical editions, and may contain errors. [ 3 ]
Horace Mann was by far the most influential American educator of the 19th century. Mann's importance came in multiple areas. He was an energetic and highly articulate advocate, especially universal education. He envisioned local common schools available to every white boy, regardless of their family poverty.
Horatio Mann and his Hound by Hugh Douglas Hamilton. Sir Horatio (Horace) Mann, 2nd Baronet (2 February 1744 – 2 April 1814) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1807. He is remembered as a member of the Hambledon Club in Hampshire and a patron of Kent cricket. He was an occasional player but rarely in ...
Antioch College is a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio.It was founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection and began operating in 1852 as a non-sectarian institution; politician and education reformer Horace Mann was its first president.
Corpus Corporum (Lat. "the collection of collections") or in full, Corpus Córporum: repositorium operum latinorum apud universitatem Turicensem, is a digital Medieval Latin library developed by the University of Zurich, Institute for Greek and Latin Philology.
The Henry Whittemore Library has over 200,000 volumes, Wi-Fi, access to over 70,000 electronic journals, [13] and includes Archives and Special Collections. Framingham State University is located on the 282-foot (86-meter) high Bare Hill (also known as Normal Hill) [ 14 ] and provides views of Boston, Massachusetts 20 miles (32 kilometers) away.