The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . and carried; union schoolswere provided for; school commit-tees paid; county educational con-ventions instituted; school regis-ters of a far-reaching plan adopt-ed; detailed report
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . and carried; union schoolswere provided for; school commit-tees paid; county educational con-ventions instituted; school regis-ters of a far-reaching plan adopt-ed; detailed reports required; nor-mal schools established;, and an educational ma-chinery put in motion that completely revolution-ized the school system of the state. In 1843, underthe auspices of the board of education, Mr. Mannvisited Europe, to examine schools and obtain suchinformation as could be made available at home. Hisseventli annual report embodied the Iesulls of hisjourney. Scores of editicms were printed, not onlyin his own state, but in different slates of the Union,sometimes by order of state legislatures, sometimesby private individuals. Several editions were printedin England. It was largely copied into newspaperseverywhere, and created a most profound only inimical criticism made appeared in Bostonin the autumn of 1844, in a pamphlet of 144 pages,entitled, Remarks on the Seventh Annual KoDort. OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 79 t *^-^ ? Horace Mann, and bearing the namesof thirty-one of the Boston schoolmasters, attackinghim for his advocacy of the abandonment of corporalpunishment in school discipline. Mr. Mann repliedin a pamphlet of 176 pages. A few months elapsed,and in May following a portion only of his thirty-one schoolmasters rejoined with another pamphlet,this time of 315 pages. He struck back with a sec-ond pamphlet of 124 pages, and the controversy wasended, subsequent events proving the impregnabil-ity of his position. For twelve years Mr. Mann wasthe secreta
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