Americans All, Immigrants AllUnited States. Office of Education
History
Americans All, Immigrants All
United States. Office of Education
Acculturation -- United States; Americanization; Immigrants -- United States -- History; Radio in education
Participating in Washington’s Inaugural was Rabbi Seixas, _Portuguese
Jew_ ... one of our greatest clergymen, Jonathan Edwards, _Welsh_ ...
leader in welfare and religious work, Huie Kin, _Chinese_ ... first
Protestant missionary to West Indies was George Lisle, former _Negro_
slave ... professor of theology at Hartford Seminary, N. Y. Ananigian,
_Armenian_ ... authority on early church history is Prof. La Plana,
_Albanian_.
_Education_
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First book on pedagogy published in 1770 by Christopher Dock, _German_
... Harvard University named after John Harvard, _English_; Yale
University by Elihu Yale, _Welsh_; William and Mary by James Blair,
_Scot_; Brown University by Morgan Edwards and Samuel Jones, _Welsh_
... New York University by Gallatin, _Swiss_ ... Tuskegee Institute by
Booker Washington, _Negro_, world-famed educator ... Williams College by
Ephraim Williams, _Welsh_ ... one of incorporators of Columbia University
was Rabbi Seixas, _Portuguese Jew_ ... Hunter College by Thomas Hunter,
_Irish_ ... Creighton University, Omaha, by Creighton brothers, _Irish_
... Princeton University founded by _Scottish_ Presbyterians ... Barnard
College founded by Annie Nathan Meyer, _German Jew_.
Infant school introduced in 1816, by Robert Owen, _Welsh_ ... first
German kindergarten introduced in Wisconsin in 1855 by wife of Carl
Schurz, _German_ ... a primer, first book produced in Pennsylvania,
written by Franz Pastorius, _German_, headmaster of first school in
Germantown ... College of Journalism at Columbia University founded by
Joseph Pulitzer, _Hungarian Jew_ ... School of Mines founded by Adolph
Lewisohn, _German Jew_ ... first English kindergarten founded in Boston
in 1860 by Elizabeth Peabody, _English_ ... father of modern American
education was Horace Mann, _English_.
World-famous orientalist P. K. Hitti, _Syrian_ ... one of foremost
educators was Henry Suzallo, _Yugoslav_ ... Angelo Patri, _Italian_,
counsels parents and children ... one of our greatest economists was
Thorstein Veblen, _Norwegian_.
_Law and Order_
First Chief Justice of Supreme Court was John Jay, _French_ ... present
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, _Welsh_ ... one of foremost
authorities on international law is Stephen Ladas, _Greek_.
* * * * *
_Finns_ work the iron-ore fields of northern Minnesota. ...
_Netherlanders_ and _Poles_ developed wood-working trades of Michigan....
_Italians_, _Portuguese_, _Greeks_, and _Swiss_ have built up the grape
and wine industry of California.... _Greek_ candy-makers.... _Mexicans_
and _Japanese_ in beet fields of Colorado, Nebraska, and California....
_Italians_, _Poles_, and _Slavs_ in meatpacking, textile, and building
industries.
THE PROGRAMS AND THEIR PURPOSE
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