Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . SchoolmastersClub since 1884; U. S. Commissioner of Education sincei88g; , Brown 1893; Univ. of Jena 1899; ,Univ. of Missouri 1870, Univ. of Pa 1894, Yale 1895,Princeton 1896. TORREV , , ,\)., United States Commissioner ofEducation, was born in North Killingly, Connecti-cut, Setpember lo, 1S35, prepared for College atth Phillips .\cademy, Andover, Massachusetts, and entering th
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . SchoolmastersClub since 1884; U. S. Commissioner of Education sincei88g; , Brown 1893; Univ. of Jena 1899; ,Univ. of Missouri 1870, Univ. of Pa 1894, Yale 1895,Princeton 1896. TORREV , , ,\)., United States Commissioner ofEducation, was born in North Killingly, Connecti-cut, Setpember lo, 1S35, prepared for College atth Phillips .\cademy, Andover, Massachusetts, and entering the Class of 1858 at Yale, and that Uni-versity conferred on him the degree of Master ofArts in 1869. Mr. Harris early devoted himselfto educational work, making his residence in , Missouri, where in 1866 he founded the Pliilosophical Society and in 1867 establishedand conducted as Editor the Journal of SpeculativePhilosophy, the first periodical publication of itscharacter in the L^nited States. In 1868 he wasplaced in charge of the public school system of as Superintentlent of Schools in that city,filling that position with distinguished success for. W. T. HARRIS twelve years. Under his arlministration the attend-ance of pupils increased from seventeen thousandto fifty-five thousand, and on his retirement he waspresented with a gold medal and a purse of Si000 in grateful recognition of his faithful and dis-tinguished services. During this period he foundrecognition of the value of his educational work inthe degree of Doctor of Laws which was conferredupon him by the LTniversity of ^Missouri in 1870,and his election as President of the National Educa-tional .Association in 1875, ^i ^^^ years later hewas selected by the Government to represent theUnited States Bureau of Education at the Interna-tional Congress of Educators at Brussels in also prepared for the Government the Statement UNIVERSITIES JNB THEIR SONS 35 of American Education which was
Size: 1498px × 1669px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectuniversitiesandcolle
