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Address Delivered Before The Benevolent Society Of Bowdoin College, Tuesday Evening, Sept. 5, 1826
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Address Delivered Before The Benevolent Society Of Bowdoin College, Tuesday Evening, Sept. 5, 1826
Samuel Phillips Newman
Mirror Office, 1826
Social Science; Philanthropy & Charity; Social Science / Philanthropy & Charity; Study Aids / Financial Aid
A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, the Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred From Examples of Writing
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Samuel Phillips Newman was an American preacher, author, and teacher.
Background
Samuel Phillips Newman was born on June 6, 1797 in Andover, Massachussets, United States. He was the son of Reverend Mark Newman, third principal of Phillips Academy (1795 - 1810) and Sarah Phillips Newman, daughter of William Phillips, a merchant of Boston.
Education
As a boy Samuel attended Phillips Academy and in 1816 he was graduated with honors from Harvard College. For a year after his graduation he was a private instructor in a family in Lexington, Kentucky; he then studied for one year at Andover Theological Seminary.
Career
In 1818 Newman went to Bowdoin College as a tutor, with the privilege of continuing his theological studies under President Appleton. The next year he was elected professor of Greek and Latin, and upon the establishment of the professorship of rhetoric and oratory in 1824, he was transferred to that chair. Although his time was chiefly devoted to the teaching of English, he was also, from 1824 to 1839, lecturer on civil polity and political economy. His versatility is also shown by the fact that in 1820 he was licensed to preach as a Congregationalist (although in those searching times he was somewhat suspected of Unitarian leanings) and for nearly three years, 1830-33, during the absence of President Allen, was the acting-president of the college. He had a decided bent not only for the art of teaching but also for the conduct of business, the administration of affairs, and the leadership of men.
In 1827 Newman published a textbook, A Practical System of Rhetoric or the Principles and Rules of Style. Although the terms used are a bit different from those in modern rhetorics, and the philosophical principles and abstract qualities of style more heavily stressed, it is clearly and pleasantly written. Both in this book and also in an important address, "A Practical Method of Teaching Rhetoric, " delivered before the American Institute of Instruction in Boston in 1830, he advocated principles and suggested methods, such as teaching by illustrative examples, by translation of other languages, by "talking lectures, " and by individual conferences, for many years regarded as good devices. In 1835 he published Elements of Political Economy. Largely based upon the writings of Adam Smith, the book could not lay much claim to originality, but it did expound in clear language the principles of the then rapidly rising subject and in the opinion of Professor Amasa Walker of Harvard was "the best work of its kind in the United States".
In 1839, after twenty-one years of efficient service at Bowdoin, he "yielded to an application of the Massachusetts Board of Education" and became head of the newly established State Normal School at Barre. But after two years his health broke and he returned to his birthplace, dying there at the age of forty-four. Those closest to him at Bowdoin regarded him not only as an understanding and sagacious teacher and an able administrator, but as a lovable and loyal friend.
Achievements
Newman's textbook "A Practical System of Rhetoric or the Principles and Rules of Style" was widely used in the schools and colleges of the country. It went through more than sixty editions in the United States and was republished in England.
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Personality
Quotes from others about the person
"During the whole period of his professorship at Brunswick he was probably the most influential member of the college government".
Connections
On May 31, 1821, he married Caroline, daughter of Colonel William A. and Charlotte (Mellen) Kent of Concord, New Hampshire, and before he left Brunswick in 1839 he had a family of five daughters.