American history by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's sons
Published: 1917-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

State universities, colleges, and academies had multiplied, but public elementary education, the boast of the United States to-day, was then of poor quality. Common schools were in a deplorable condition. Free high schools were beginning to be introduced into a few Northern cities. Conditions in Massachusetts were better than in most of the States, but one-third of the children' of that State were without school advantages. Under the influence of the great educational leader, Horace ^Nlann, Massachusetts organized the first State Board of Education (1837). As the first secretary of this board, through his own untiring efforts, he brought about the raising of more taxes for the support of public schools, secured better text-books and established the first normal school (1839).

Special academies and seminaries for girls had in- Girls* creased in numbers. Some of these schools were coeducational, although there was widespread opposition to granting girls equal educational privileges with boys. In 1833, Oberlin College opened its doors to men and women alike, but twenty years elapsed before another college followed this example.

The period was notable as marking the beginning of the An creation of a new literature. Irving, Cooper, and Bryant uterature. ■already had made enduring reputations as writers. Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language was first published in 1828. A volume of poems by Edgar Allan Poe appeared in 1827. Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Hawthorne, Emerson and Holmes were publishing their writings. The first volumes of George Bancroft's History of the United States appeared in 1834; and Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella in 1837. Audubon, Agassiz, and Asa Gray were making their contributions to scientific investigation. The Smithsonian Institution was endowed in 1838. During the decade, Webster, Edward Everett, and other orators of high rank were addressing large public audiences. The New York Sun^ the first one-cent paper, was founded in 1833.

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