. 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. etary save absolute devotion tohis duty saved it from wreck. During a period of twelveyears continuous service, no opponent of the cause, or ofMr. Manns views in conducting it, was ever able to specifya single instance in which he had prostituted or perverted theinfluence of his office for any personal, partisan, or collateralend whatever. It is impossible to appreciate at its true value the workwhich Horace Mann did for popular
. 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. etary save absolute devotion tohis duty saved it from wreck. During a period of twelveyears continuous service, no opponent of the cause, or ofMr. Manns views in conducting it, was ever able to specifya single instance in which he had prostituted or perverted theinfluence of his office for any personal, partisan, or collateralend whatever. It is impossible to appreciate at its true value the workwhich Horace Mann did for popular education, unless werealize to some extent the pitiful condition of the commonschools of Massachusetts, and, indeed, of the entire countryat that time. Speaking of this in his First Annual Report,made during the latter part of 1837, Mr. Mann says: Under this silent but rapid corrosion it recently hap-pened (1836) in one of the most flourishing towns of theState, having a population of more than three thousand per-sons, that the principal district school actually ran down, andwas not kept for two years. In the biography of Mr. Mann, it is stated that In 248 Sfl. T&\
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