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Submissions must be specific to the life and work of Henry Barnard. |
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| Submissions must be specific to the life and work of Henry Barnard. |
Henry Barnard was born in Hartford, Connecticut on January 24, 1811 and died there on July 5, 1900. He attended Yale, studying law but had little interest in practicing it. He was elected to the General Assembly in 1837 where he participated in debates over the funding of public education. Barnard introduced the first legislation for free education and created the Connecticut Board of Common Schools. In 1850, Barnard became the state's superintendent of schools and in 1867, he was named the first United States commissioner of education.
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Submissions must be specific to the life and/or work of Dr. Benjamin Spock. |
Benjamin McLane Spock was born May 2, 1903, in New Haven, Connecticut, oldest of six children of a lawyer whose Dutch ancestors once spelled their names Spaak. He attended Yale University, where he joined the crew team and helped win a gold medal at the 1924 Olympics. From 1933 to 1943, he worked in private practice in New York City while teaching pediatrics at Cornell University. Spock's "Baby and Child Care," first published in 1946, was the bible of parents in the baby boom that followed World War II. He became a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, leading a march on the Pentagon in 1967. In June 1968, Spock was convicted in Boston and sentenced to two years in prison for conspiracy to aid, abet and counsel young men to avoid the draft. The verdict was reversed on appeal.
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Submissions must be specific to the life and/or work of Noah Webster. |
Born in 1758 in West Hartford, Connecticut and educated at Yale University, Noah Webster served in the American Revolution, studied law and taught school. He published a spelling book in 1783, to differentiate American English from British in terms of spelling, grammar and pronunciation. In 1828, he published the American Dictionary of the English Language. He died in New Haven in 1843.
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