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Excerpt from A History of the New York Academy of Sciences: Formerly the Lyceum of Natural HistoryThe Secretary was given permission to publish the work upon his own responsibility, the text to be sub jcet to the approval of the Council. The matter has received such approval, and is now placed before the members and friends of the Society.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at...

Excerpt from Manual for the Normal Training Course in Kansas High Schools: 1910-1911 The Purpose of this Manual is to give a history of the normal-training high-school movement in Kansas, and to set forth those requirements of the state department of public instruction which must be met by all schools receiving the benefits and privileges of the normal-training act of 1909. The Manual is further intended to offer suggestions as to the manner...

Excerpt from Francis Adrian Van Der Kemp 1752-1829: An Autobiography Together With Extracts From His Correspondence Of Mr. Van der Kemp's papers but few re main. All documents relating to his public work in Holland were sent by him from Kings ton to his friend Jan Jacob Cau, about 1790, and cannot now be traced. Letters from his Correspondents in Europe and America during his life in the New World, with the exception of some from Jefferson an...

Excerpt from Historical Sketch of Oberlin College The plan of Oberlin originated in 1832, with Rev. John J. Shipherd, then pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Elyria, and P.P. Stewart, formerly a missionary among the Southern Indians. It was an offspring of the wonderful revivals of 1830, 31 and 32, in which Mr. Shipherd was a most faithful, prudent and successful laborer. The plan involved a school for both sexes, with Preparatory, Teacher...

Excerpt from The Teaching of Poetry, in the High School There has lately been much criticism of the teaching of literature in the high school. It has been suggested, by those who have attempted to measure school work by its effect upon later life, that recent generations of high-school stu dents have not gained all that they should from this study. They point out that we have been led to expect that twelve years of school contact with the bes...

Excerpt from Educational Arrangements and College Life at Oberlin: Inaugural Address of President J. H. Fairchild, Delivered at the Commencement of Oberlin College, August 22, 1866 The trust which you commit to me, Fathers and Brethren, is one of gravest importance, and if I were obliged to feel that it must fall on me alone or chiefly, I could not accept the responsibility. The Fathers under whose fostering care the work has been carried on ...

Excerpt from Greek Immigration to the United States Inasmuch as the book is based almost wholly on per sonal investigation, I am aware that it is open to the inaccuracies which beset that kind of a study. I have selected my sources of information with the greatest care, and have taken pains to avoid making any positive state ments unless I was myself convinced of the truth of them, yet there are undoubtedly errors due to faulty judgment. My h...

Excerpt from Immigration: A World Movement and Its American Significance In the preparation of this book the author has endeavored to avoid that narrowness of treatment which so easily besets the writer on such a topic as immigration. The effort has been made to regard immigration, not simply as an "American public problem, " but as a sociological phenomenon of world-wide significance. While the primary viewpoint is that of a citizen of the U...

Excerpt from History of the 27th Regiment N. Y. Vols The official accounts of battles are all wonderfully alike, dealing with bodies and masses of men, and not with individual hopes, aspirations and fears. We read about marching and flanking and enfilading, but when we go behind these terms, and ask what the individual soldier in the ranks is thinking or doing or suffering, the story is too light to be included in an official report, and too ...

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Excerpt from Oberlin: Its Origin, Progress and Results, An Address, Prepared for the Alumni of Oberlin College, Assembled August 22, 1860 A gathering, like the present, of the Alumni and friends of Oberlin College, affords a fit occasion for a hasty review of the origin and past career of the college and the place how Oberlin came to be, what it has done, and what it is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of...

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Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of old and new media alike.

Excerpt from Oberlin the Colony and the College, 1833-1883 Fifty years have passed since a community and a college were planted together in the woods of North ern Ohio. An invitation has gone forth to all who, during the fifty years, have been numbered with the Community or the College, to return to the family heritage for a brief reunion. As a help to ward rendering the occasion a season of interest and profit, this brief record has been pre...

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After a prom night date rape leads to pregnancy, seventeen-year-old Jane is forced to marry her attacker and grow up too soon. In her new life, she must learn how to straddle the gap between the life she once imagined for herself and her new reality. After the marriage predictably fails, she is determined to become something more than just another teen-mom statistic. She longs to complete her education, achieve financial stability and create a...

After a prom night date rape leads to pregnancy, seventeen-year-old Jane is forced to marry her attacker and grow up too soon. In her new life, she must learn how to straddle the gap between the life she once imagined for herself and her new reality. After the marriage predictably fails, she is determined to become something more than just another teen-mom statistic. She longs to complete her education, achieve financial stability and create a...

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