While at Northwestern, Hall attended classes with a fellow student named Carroll L. Griffith who would later go on to become the founder of Griffith Laboratories. After graduation, Hall earned a graduate degree from the University of Chicago. Hall was soon hired by the Western Electric Company through a telephone interview. When he showed up for his first day, however, he was told by a personnel officer that "we don't take niggers." Recovering from this slight, he began working for the Chicago Department of Health as a chemist and was promoted in 1917 to senior chemist.
Born on June 26, 1854 into a rural Nova Scotian farming community to a liberal family with a love of learning, young Robert Laird Borden was educated at the local school, Acacia Villa Academy. So promising were his intellectual abilities, that he became an assistant school master in classical studies at the Academy at the age of fourteen. By then, he had mastered Latin, French, and German, along with English (primeministers.ca). At nineteen, he was offered a teaching position to teach classics and mathematics in the small town of Matawan, New Jersey. Seeing no future in teaching, he returned to Nova Scotia two years later, in 1874, and began articling for a Halifax law firm, not having the means to study law in university.
Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Mo. Harry was the son of Martha Ellen (Young) Truman and John Anderson Truman. The family, which soon added another boy, Vivian, and a girl, Mary Jane moved many times during Harry’s childhood and youth. They first moved to a farm close to Grandview in1887, then, in 1890 they moved to Independence and lastly, in 1902 to Kansas City (Burnes 10). As a child, Harry enrolled in public schools in Independence and graduated in 1901 from high school.
Zebulon Vance Zebulon Vance was born May 13, 1830. In the hills of Buncombe, NC. Although he was the third of eight children, He did a lot of the work. His father, David Vance, and his Mother, Mira Baird, was both Scotch-Irish. At only age twelve he was sent off to Washington Collage Academy.
Coming of Age Facing war at age 18 is a difficult challenge, especially during WWII. A Separate Peace by John Knowles is a book about a group of boys at a boarding high school called Devon School. John Knowles was born in 1926 and raised in West Virginia. He attended two years of high school there and then went to Philips-Exeter in New Hampshire, until graduation in 1944. He then joined the air force after high school, and then went to Yale, eight months later.
Frederick Grant Banting was born in Allison Ontario, on November 14th, 1891. He was the youngest of five children from William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant. He was born into a middle class farm family. Frederick Banting had three older brothers by the names of Nelson, Thompson and Kenneth and an older sister named Essie. Frederick Banting's education began at a public high school in Allison from where he proceeded to study at the University of Toronto.
John Simpson Kirkpatrick was born in England, in South Shields to a Scottish couple in 1892. Simpson was educated from the age of 6 to his 13th birthday, learning how to read and write fluently. In June 1903 he decided to leave school and start work on a horse drawn milk delivery run. He was a member of the Territorial Army (the British Army reserve corps) serving with the Royal Field Artillery in a Howitzer Battery at South Shields. In 1909 Simpson’s father died and he wanted to follow in his footsteps, so he joined the Merchant Navy at 17 years of age, working as a stoker and steward.
The first person to write a dictionary of American English and permanently alter the spelling of American English, Noah Webster through his spelling book taught millions of American children to read for the first half-century of the republic and millions more to spell for the following half-century. Born a farmer's son in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, Webster attended Yale College from 1774 to 1778, during the Revolutionary War. After graduating, he taught at Connecticut district schools before studying for the bar. The dismal conditions of these schools, combined with his patriotism and a search for self-identity, inspired him to compose three schoolbooks that, he believed, would unify the new nation through speaking and writing a common language. (Previously, almost all American schoolbooks had been reprints of imported British ones.)
A history of the Little Paper Family • Professor Irvin S. Fusfeld published “A review of the Little Paper Family” in 1944-1945 • All of the papers were started as a means of instruction in printing, so they could keep the parents informed with general information and progress of their children. It was also created to keep the alumni in contact with their school and also give an outlet for creativity. • The first paper in school for the deaf was published in the Ohio School in October 1868 and the paper was entitled The Mutes’ Chronicle and also another paper titled Vis-à-vis. The Mutes’ Chronicle was re-named to The Ohio Chronicle in 1894. • Other papers published were The Kentucky Standard in April 1874, The Virginia
Whereas education during Jefferson’s era was, voluntary and he believed in teaching everyone the basics. Additionally, Jefferson believed that students in the elementary schools should read enough history “by appraising them of the past, will enable them to judge the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men…”(S&S pg. 40). Whereas in today’s practice, elementary students receive about forty-five minutes of history a month until they enter 5th or 6th grade. In chapter three, the Quality of Teachers according to Horace Mann “the education and the quality of the state’s teachers was the inadequate preparation most teachers had received” (S&S pg.