The Grammar Schools in 17th Century Colonial America
BALLOU, Richard Boyd
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Typescript of unpublished doctoral thesis. Thick quarto. 433 [1] ff., printed rectos only. Ruled paper typescript bound into maroon buckram with spine gilt. Ex-Department of the Interior, Office of Education Library with their bookplate, card envelope, and a few markings. Binding with some wear, corners gently bent, very good or better with the interior clean. Ballou's thesis for a Doctorate in Education at Harvard, dated April 15, 1940. "A study of the grammar schools in New England, New Amsterdam and New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland with special reference to the ideas which led to their establishment and influenced their early history." The thesis begins by tracing the schools' European antecedents. According to the biography printed in the thesis, Ballou received an A.B. from Amherst in 1931 and an Ed.M. from Harvard in 1937. Between receiving his master's and PhD, he held teaching positions at Harvard, Smith College, and Mount Holyoke College. In 1949, Ballou became director of The Ethical Culture School, a Manhattan private school. J. Robert Oppenheimer, educated there, spoke at his inauguration. In 1953, the Beacon Press published Ballou's *The Individual and the State: The Modern Challenge to Education*. Ballou's work appears to have never been published, and copies are rare. OCLC locates two physical copies, both at Harvard. An unpublished work on America's earliest grammar schools. Seller Inventory # 454116
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Title: The Grammar Schools in 17th Century Colonial...
Publisher: The Author), (Cambridge, Massachusetts
Publication Date: 1940
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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