. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. University, Providence, in Sep-tember, 1816, and graduating in 1819, took the first honor of his class. His theme was The Progress of the HumanRace. Six weeks before Commencement, he entered hisname in the law office of Hon. J. J. Fiske, of Wrentham, asa student. Within a few months, however, he was invitedback to college as a tutor in Latin and Greek. In 1821 he attended the celebrated law school at Litch-field, Conn., then unde
. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. University, Providence, in Sep-tember, 1816, and graduating in 1819, took the first honor of his class. His theme was The Progress of the HumanRace. Six weeks before Commencement, he entered hisname in the law office of Hon. J. J. Fiske, of Wrentham, asa student. Within a few months, however, he was invitedback to college as a tutor in Latin and Greek. In 1821 he attended the celebrated law school at Litch-field, Conn., then under Judge Gould, one of the most dis-tinguished jurists of his time. In 1823 he entered the officeof the Hon. James Richardson, of Dedham, Mass., was ad-mitted to the Bar, and immediately opened an office at thatplace. He made it the inflexible rule of his professional lifenever to undertake a case that he did not believe to be believed that an advocate loses his highest power when heloses the ever-conscious conviction that he is contendingfor the truth. In 1827 Mr. Mann was elected to the Massa-chusetts House of Representatives from Dedham and con- 246. MANN tinued to be returned thereto until 1833. During that yearhe removed to Boston, entering into partnership with EdwardG. L,oring. At the next election he was chosen to the StateSenate from the County of Suffolk, and continued to be re-elected for four years, being president of that bodyduring the years 1836 and 1837. ^n tne tatter year he retiredfrom political life and became Secretary of the Massachu-setts Board of Education. The act which most signalized his legislative life in theHouse of Representatives was the establishment of the StateLunatic Hospital, at Worcester, the first institution of thekind ever created and sustained at public cost. The Boardof Education was organized on the 29th of June, 1837, an<lHorace Mann was elected its secretary, entering upon hisduties immediately. On becoming Secretary of th
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