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1815–1900, founder of Clark Univ., b. Hubbardston, Mass. After a long career in business and finance, he became interested in higher education, maki...
1804–34, English explorer. He accompanied Clapperton to the Niger River in 1827 and brought back Clapperton’s journal, which was published (1829) ...
1835–1901, American inventor, b. Barnesville, Ohio. He patented many electrical devices, most of them having to do with the telegraph. His telautogr...
(m g f´ ) (KEY) , 1800–1873, American educator, b. near Claysville, Pa. He was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1826, having mean...
(y ´hän h n´r kh p s´´tälôt´s ) (KEY) , 1746–1827, Swiss educational reformer, b. Zürich. His theories laid the foundation of modern elemen...
1856–1906, American educator and Hebrew scholar, b. New Concord, Ohio, grad. Muskingum College, 1870, Ph.D. Yale, 1875. The author of many texts on ...