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Edward Hicks Magill was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and was the son of Jonathan Paxson and Mary (Watson) Magill.
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An Address Upon the Co-Education of the Sexes (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Address Upon the Co-Education of the Sexes I need not multiply words, nor heap up testimony on the sub jcet. We all understand that. Brothers and sisters, in every well-regulated family, exercise a mutually refining and elevating effect upon each other, and that it is always a misfortune to either to be deprived of the influence of the other. What is true in the family is equally true in the school or college, under proper regulations. How many have seen a son or brother return home after years of constant association with his own sex only, in school or college, awkward and rude, with a mind stored with knowledge, dearly purchased at a totally unnecessary ex pense of refinement and cultivation and how many, on the other hand, have seen a sister or daughter return after a similar absence, and long association with her own sex only, at school, simpering and shy in the presence of the other sex, and with the most romantic and exalted ideas of their character, often to be corrected by bitter experience and the sacrifice of a life which might have been useful and happy and how sad a thought it is that a foolish and unreasoning prejudice will continue this great wrong to both sexes, by depriving each, through these critical formative years, of the society of the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Sixty-Five Years in the Life of a Teacher, 1841-1906 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Sixty-Five Years in the Life of a Teacher, 1841-1906 Ome description of the preparation for my life as a teacher, in the various stages of that profession, may not be altogether unin teresting or unprofitable to those Of my read ers who are engaged, or especially interested, in that laborious, but, to me, always attractive occupation. My parents, Jonathan Paxson and Mary Watson Magill, well-to-do farmers in the township of Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, felt that the earliest education of their children should, whenever practicable, be conducted at home, in the bosom of the family. I was born on the 24th of Septem ber, 1825. As children, beginning at the age of two or three years, my brother, four sisters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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An Introductory French Reader: Containing Grammatical Exercises Progressively Arranged, Familiar Conversations on Various Subjects, and Selections for ... to the Author's French Grammar, and
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Edward Hicks Magill
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Magill spent his boyhood in a Quaker farmer's house-hold and received his formal education in a "monthly meeting school" and in Westtown Boarding School, both under the control of the Society of Friends.
At the age of sixteen, he began his teaching career, but after seven years in elementary-school work, he became convinced that he needed more adequate training.
Accordingly, he spent a year (1848 - 49) in Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, another at Yale, and in 1852 received the degree of A. B. at Brown University and three years later that of A. M.
Career
From 1852 to 1859, Magill was principal of the classical department in the Providence, Rhode Island, high school. His success in this position led to his being engaged as sub-master of the Public Latin School. Boston, in which position he served until 1867. The following year he spent in travel and study in Europe.
At the opening of Swarthmore College in November 1869, he became principal of its preparatory department, and in 1871, president of the college, serving until his resignation in 1889. When he became connected with Swarthmore, there was no co-educational institution of higher learning in the eastern section of the United States.
When he assumed the principalship, the preparatory department included three-fourths of the 170 students enrolled in the institution. As president of the latter, one of his most difficult tasks was to prevent the preparatory school from subordinating the college, and gradually to eliminate the school entirely.
By the time of his retirement as president, the preparatory department enrolled only 33% of the total number of students, and three years later it was entirely abolished. This achievement was accomplished in the face of determined opposition on the part of some members of the board of managers and a fraction of the institution's constituency, and not without the loss of some financial support.
Magill's insistence on an institution of genuine college rank was all the more remarkable because of his own previous experience in secondary-school work. His teaching before he went to Swarthmore was devoted chiefly to Latin and French; he varied his administrative labors at the college with the occasional teaching of these languages and was a professor of them for some twelve years after his retirement as president.
During the last part of his life, he was occupied with literary labors, including the writing of an autobiography, Sixty-five Years in the Life of a Teacher, 1841-1906 (1907). His death occurred in New York.
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An Introductory French Reader: Containing Grammatical Exercises Progressively Arranged, Familiar Conversations on Various Subjects, and Selections for ... to the Author's French Grammar, and
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Sixty-Five Years in the Life of a Teacher, 1841-1906 (Classic Reprint)
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A French Grammar, Presenting,in a Concise and Systematic Form, the Essential Principles of the French Language ...: To Which Is Added a French, English, and Latin Vocabulary ...
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A Reading French Grammar: A Short Method of Learning to Read the French Language
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When Men Were Sold: The Underground Railroad In Bucks County, Pa. : An Address Delivered Before The Bucks County Historical Society, January 18,1898
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An Address Upon the Co-Education of the Sexes (Classic Reprint)
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French Prose And Poetry: Being An Advanced French Reader (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
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When Men Were Sold: An Address (1898)
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An Introductory French Reader: Containing Grammatical Exercises Progressively Arranged, Familiar Conversations on Various Subjects, and Selections for ... to the Author's French Grammar, and
Personality
An illustration of the courageous enthusiasm which characterized all Magill's undertakings was his attempt, at the age of seventy, through letters written by his own hand, to persuade the manufacturers of America to solve the labor problem by means of profit-sharing.
His introduction of a system whereby American students of French and French students of English exchanged letters, and his founding, in 1887, of the College Association of Pennsylvania, which finally became the Association of the Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland, are noteworthy illustrations of his pioneering spirit and executive ability.
Connections
Magill was married to Sarah Warner Beans, by whom he had four daughters and a son. He was married a second time, in his seventy-seventh year, April 24, 1902, to Sarah Elizabeth Gardner of New York.
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