President Garfield and education. Hiram college memorial

Front matter

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PRESIDENT GARFIELD

Part I. Page Memorials Of President Garfield In Hiram

I. General Sketch 15

I. Hiram and Hiram School 15

H. Garfield the Hiram Student 24

m. The Williams College Interregnum ... 39

IV. Garfield President of Hiram .... 46

V. Garfield's Outside Work ..... 73

VI. Garfield's Later Hiram Life 87

II. Addresses at Hiram College Memorial Service 114

I. B. A. Hinsdale 114

HI. C. B. Lockwood 133

IV. C. D. Wilbur 138

VI. A. H. Pettibone 147

VII. H. C. White 150

VHI. H. N. Eldridge 157

Part II

PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S SPEECHES AND ADDRESSES ON EDUCATION AND EDUCATORS.

Introduction to Speeches 161

I. The State and Education 162

2. The Army Post Schools 169

3. The " Hoar Bill " 173

4. Education and the South 173

H. The State and Science 174

UT. Studies and Methods 176

IV. Tributes to Educators 178

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I. The National, Bureau of Education: Speech in

the House of Representatives, June 8, 1866 . . 181 II. National Aid to Education: Speech in the House

of Representatives, Feb. 6, 1872 215

III. Suffrage and Schools: Extract from " The Future

of the Republic: its Dangers and Hopes." An Address delivered before the Literary Societies of Western Reserve College, Hudson, 0., July 2, 1873 . . 231

IV. Popular Education: Extracts from the Letter of

Acceptance, and the Inaugural Address, July 12, 1880, and March 4, 1881 245

V. The Gist of the " Southern Question: " Reply made at Mentor, to a Delegation of Colored Citizens from South Carolina and other Southern States,

VI. Relation of the National Government to Science: Speech in the House of Representatives, Feb. 11, 1879 257

VII. College Education: An Address before the Literary Societies of the Eclectic Institute, Hiram, 0., June 14, 1867 275

VIII. Elements of Success: Address before the Students of the Spencerian Business College, Washington, D.C, June 29, 1869 315

IX. Some Tendencies of American Education: Speech before the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association, Washington, D.C, Feb. 5, 1879 335

X. S. F. B. Morse: An Address at the Morse Memorial Meeting, held in the Hall of the House of Representatives, April 16, 1872 343

XI. Joseph Henry: Address at the Memorial Meeting, held in the Hall of the House of Representatives,

Tuesday evening, Jan. 16, 1879 353

XII. Life and Character of Almeda A. Booth: An Address delivered at Hiram College, 0., June 22, 1876 365

LIST OF ILLUSTBATIONS.

Page Portrait of President Garfield . . . Frontispiece Facsimile Letter of President Garfield . . . .15

View of Hiram College 24

Portrait of Miss Booth 28

Facsimile Letter of Miss Booth 30

Portrait of Mrs. Garfield 86

Facsimile Letter of Mrs. Garfield .... 90

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STUDENT, TEACHER, AND CITIZEN.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, /j

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PKESIDENT GAEFIELD AND EDUCATION.