William Torrey Harris Collection
1871-1909
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Textual Date: 1871-1909
Creator: Unknown
Extent: 1 linear foot Provenance: Edith Davidson Harris gave this collection to Truman State University in the mid-1940s in memory of her father William Torrey Harris. Organization: The collection is organized in two series. Series 1 includes writings, speeches, and publications related to education and philosophy. This series is in this finding aid and also in Pickler Memorial Library’s catalog. Series 2 contains correspondence to William Torrey Harris. Language: English
Repository: Special
Collections Department, Pickler
Memorial Library, Truman State
University
Access: Open
Processing Information:
Arrangement scheme for the
collection retained as it was
received, in the order in which it
was grouped in envelopes.
Abstract:
This collection includes
papers, speeches, and publications
written by Harris on the topics of
education and philosophy, as well as
correspondence to Harris from
educator James Mickelborough
Greenwood; Joseph Baldwin, whom he
was influential in getting to come
to Kirksville to set up the teachers
college; Ira Divoll, former state
superintendent of schools and city
superintendent of schools in St.
Louis; and O.P. Davis. William Torrey
Harris (1835-1909) was an educator,
author, and philosopher. He taught
in the public school system and
became the superintendent of schools
in St. Louis from 1867 to 1880.
Harris was interested in modern
German philosophy, particularly
Hegel, and cofounded the
Philosophical Society of St. Louis
where he edited the Journal of
Speculative Philosophy. In 1873,
Harris, cofounded the first
permanent public school kindergarten
in St. Louis. He later moved to
Massachusetts, and from 1889 through
1906, he held the post of United
States Commissioner of Education. Keywords: William Torrey Harris; Education; Public Education; St. Louis; Philosophy; Kindergarten; James Mickelborough Greenwood; Joseph Baldwin; Ira Divoll; O.P. Davis |
| SERIES 1: Writings, Speeches & Publications Related to Education | |||||
| 1:1 |
Wm. T. Harris, Honors Paid to Him on His
Retirement from the St. Louis Public Schools, from the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, June 27, 1880 | ||||
| 1:2 |
Evans, Henry Ridgely, “A List of the Writings of William Torrey Harris [Advance Sheets, Chapter II], Chapter from the Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1907, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908 | ||||
| 1:3 |
“Preliminary Report on School Hygiene,”
Committee on School Hygiene, William Torrey Harris, Chairman,
Reprinted from the Educational Review, June 1899 | ||||
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1:4 |
“Recess,” a paper read before the Department of Superintendents of the National Educational Association at Washington, February 13, 1884, Popular Education Document No. 20, reprinted from the American Journal of Education | ||||
| 1:5 |
“The Study of Natural Science, --Its Uses and Dangers,” a paper read at the American Institute of Instruction at Bethlehem, N.H., July 1889 |
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| 1:6 |
“The Danger of Using Biological Analogies in Reasoning on Educational Subjects,” Reprint from the Journal of Education, March 13, 1902 |
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| 1:7 |
“What Kind of Language Study Aids in the Mastery of Natural Science?” read by Dr. W. T. Harris before Department of Superintendence at Louisville, February 27, 1906 |
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| 1:8 | “Beauty in Art vs. Beauty in Nature,” W. T. Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, n.d. | ||||
| 1:9 |
“The Educational Value of the Tragic as Compared with the Comic in Literature and Art,” read by W. T. Harris before the Department of Superintendence, N. E. A. at Chattanooga, February, 1898 | ||||
| 1:10 |
“On the Function of the Study of Latin and Greek in Education,” an address by Prof. W. T. Harris, Chairman of the Department of Education, Read Tuesday, September 4, 1884 |
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| 1:11 | “German Instruction in American Schools and the National Idiosyncrasies of the Anglo-Saxons and the Germans,” delivered before the National German-American Teachers’ Association, at Cleveland, Ohio, July 16, 1890 | ||||
| 1:12 |
“The Function of the Library and the School in Education,” from the American Journal of Education, Popular Educational Document No. 26, n.d. |
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| 1:13 | Industrial Commission, Education, Testimony of Dr. William T. Harris, Commissioner of Education, Hearings before the Industrial Commission, January 11, 1899 (missing last 3 pages) | ||||
| 1:14 |
“Art Education the True Industrial Education—A Cultivation of Aesthetic Taste of Universal Utility,” a paper read before the Department of Art Education, National Educational Association, Nashville, Tenn., July 1889 |
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| 1:15 |
“Address before the Graduates at the
Commencement Exercises of the Indian Industrial
School, Carlisle, Pa., March 2, 1899” |
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| 1:16 |
Report of the Committee on Pedagogics. “The Educational Value of Manual Training,” a paper read before the National Council of Education at Nashville, Tenn., July 1889 |
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| 1:17 |
Three Papers on Manual Training, I. The
Psychology of Manual Training, II. The
Educational Value of Manual Training, III. The
Intellectual Value of Tool Work, reprinted from
Education in the Industrial and Fine Arts in
the United States, Part II, 1900 |
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| 1:18 |
“The National Educational Association: Its
Organization and Functions,” a paper read before
the Department of Superintendence of the
National Educational Association at
Philadelphia, February 24, 1891 |
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| 1:19 |
“Horace Mann,” An address delivered before
the National Educational Assocation at Buffalo,
N.Y., July 7, 1896. Reprinted from the
Educational Review, New York, September 1896 |
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| 1:20 |
“The Future of the Normal School,” Reprinted from the Educational Review, January 1899 |
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| 1:21 |
“How the Normal School Fits for the Work of Teaching,” The Chicago Board of Education Bulletin 1:10, December 28, 1903 |
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| 1:22 |
“How to Make Good Teachers Out of Poor Ones,” Journal of Education 49:10, March 9, 1899 |
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| 1:23 |
“What the Universities Can do for the People,” Popular Education Document, n.d. |
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| 1:24 |
“The Place of University Extension in American Education,” Reprinted from Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the National Conference on University Extension, 1892 |
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| 1:25 |
“University and School Extension,” an address delivered before the National Educational Association at St. Paul, Minn., July 1890 |
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| 1:26 |
“School Statistics and Morals,” reprint from Proceedings of the National Educational Association of paper read before the Department of Superintendence at Boston, February 21, 1893 |
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| 1:27 |
School Statistics, Report
of Committee of Superintendents, National
Educational Association; includes: What Items of
Statistics are Important, and Why? Which of
these Items are Reported by the Various Nations
of Europe, and by the Several States of the
Union; A Discussion of the Technical Terms Used,
and Their Equivalents in the Various Languages;
from Report of Proceedings of the Meeting of the
Department of Superintendents; held in Brooklyn,
N. Y., February 1892 |
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| 1:28 |
“What Will the Figures Show? The Statistical Data to Settle our Great Economic Questions,” reprinted from the Boston Transcript, November 21, 1895 |
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| 1:29 |
“Conditions which Cause Variation in the Rate of School Expenditures,” Proceedings of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association, Milwaukee, Wis., 1905 |
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| 1:30 |
“The Political Economy of School Finances,” Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, May 1905 |
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| 1:31 |
“The Future of Teachers’ Salaries,” Reprinted from the Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association, Asbury Park, N. J., 1905 |
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| 1:32 |
“The Reports of the Mosely Educational Commission,” Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, September 1904 |
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| 1:33 |
A Review of the Tendencies of the Education of the Nineteenth Century; I. The Status of Education at the Close of the Century by Nicholas Murray Butler; II. The Progress of Higher Education in Elective Courses of Study and in Specialization by Charles W. Eliot; III. The Movement from Individualism to Cosmopolitanism, by W. T. Harris; Reprinted from the Proceedings of the National Education Association, Chicago, 1900 |
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| 1:34 |
“Past Achievements and Future Hopes of Education,” remarks at the Celebration of Henry Barnard’s Birthday in Hartford, January 25, 1897, Journal of Education 45:6 (February 11, 1897) |
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| 1:35 |
“Educational Progress,” Convocation Address at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland, Oregon, from School Journal, October 28, 1905 |
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| 1:36 |
“Our Educational Exhibit at the
International Exposition in Paris in 1900,”
Reprinted from Education, November 1898) |
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| 1:37 |
“Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a Report of the Commissioner of Education upon the condition of the public schools in the District of Columbia, December 14, 1892; Senate Journal, 52nd Congress, 2nd Session, Executive Document, No. 12 |
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| 1:38 |
“The World’s Educational Congress,” a
paper read before the Department of
Superintendence of the National Educational
Association, at Brooklyn, N.Y., February 16,
1892 |
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| 1:39 | “The Relation of Invention to the Communication of Intelligence and the Diffusion of Knowledge by Newspaper and Book,” Proceedings of Congress, n.d. | ||||
| 1:40 |
“The General Government and Public
Education throughout the Country,” a paper read
before the Department of Superintendence of the
National Educational Association, at New York,
February 1890 |
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| 1:41 |
“Recent Growth of Public High Schools in
the United States as Affecting the Attendance of
Colleges,” Reprinted from the Proceedings of
the National Educational Association, 1901 |
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| 1:42 |
“Higher Education for Women,” from an address at the celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Smith College, October 3, 1900, Political Equality Series 5:9 (December 1900) |
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| 1:43 |
“The Proper Place of the Y. M. C. A. in the Educational Field,” address delivered before the Business School of the Young Men’s Christian Association, Washington, C.C., April 11, 1890 |
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| 1:44 |
“The Educative Work at Missions,” read at the Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions, New York, April 25, 1900 |
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| 1:45 |
“The Separation of the Church from the Tax-Supported School,” a paper read before the National Council of Education, July 7, 1903, Reprinted from Educational Review (October 1903) |
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| 1:46 |
“God as Regulative Idea and God as the Absolute,” read before the American Philosophical Association, Cambridge, Mass., December 27, 1905 |
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| 1:47 |
“Morality in the Schools,” written as a review of the discussion in Christian Register of January 31, 1889, Christian Register Tract Series, No. 12 |
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| 1:48 |
“Abstraction Considered in its Practical Relation to Life,” essay read before the St. Louis Teachers’ Association, Rohrer’s Commercial Advertiser, February 1866 |
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| 1:49 |
“In what Does Spiritual Evolution Consist?” n.d. |
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| 1:50 |
“Social Culture in the Form of Education and Religion,” paper read before the International Congress of Arts and Science, Division G Social Culture, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, September 19-24, 1904, Reprinted from the Educational Review (January 1905) |
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| 1:51 |
“How the School Strengthens the Individuality of the Pupil,” an address delivered before the National Educational Association, July 11, 1902, Reprinted from the Educational Review (October 1902) |
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| 1:52 |
“The School City,” School Bulletin Publications, Syracuse, March 1906 |
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| 1:53 |
“The Isolation of the School: Its Educational Function,” Reprinted from The Independent, August 1, 1901 |
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| 1:54 |
“An Educational Policy for our New Possessions,” an address before the National Educational Association, July 11, 1899, Reprinted from the Educational Review (September 1899) |
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| 1:55 |
“The Curriculum for Secondary Schools,” read before the Department of Superintendence at is session in Richmond, Va., February 1894, Reprinted from Education (June 1894) |
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| 1:56 |
“Classification and Instruction in Rural Schools,” an address delivered before the National Educational Association at Milwaukee, Wis., July 8, 1897, Reprinted from the Educational Review (October 1897) |
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| 1:57 |
“The Influence of the Higher Education of a Country Upon its Elementary Schools,” Reprint from Proceedings of the National Educational Association of paper read before the General Session at Asbury Park, N.J., July 11, 1894 |
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| 1:58 |
Report of the Committee on Fifteen, by W. T. Harris, LL. D., A. S. Draper, LL. D., and H. S. Tarbell, read at the Cleveland Meeting of the Department of Superintendence, February 19-21, 1895, with the debate, New England Publishing Company, Boston, 1895 |
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| 1:59 |
New England Association of
School Superintendents, Report on Geography,
with discussions, presented at meeting held
November 15, 1901, revised and reprinted, April
13, 1902 |
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| 1:60 |
“Geography in the Elementary Schools,” n.d. |
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| 1:61 |
“The Place of Geography in the Elementary Schools,” Reprinted from The Forum (January 1902) |
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| 1:62 |
“Why Art and Literature
Ought to be Studied in Elementary Schools,”
Reprinted from the Educational Review,
April 1897 |
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| 1:63 |
“Spelling Reform, a Discussion,” by E. O. Vaile, Slosson Thompson, Emerson E. White, William T. Harris, et al. and “Formal Discipline, a Discussion of an address by Professor L. B. R. Briggs on ‘Some Aspects of Grammar-School Training’” by William T. Harris; Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association, 1901 |
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| 1:64 |
“The Kindergarten as a Preparation for the Highest Civilization,” read at meeting of International Kindergarten Union, April 16, 1903 |
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| 1:65 |
“The Kindergarten Methods contrasted with the Methods of the American Primary School,” a paper read before the Kindergarten Department of the National Educational Association at Nashville, Tenn., July 17, 1889 |
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| 1:66 |
“The Future of the Kindergarten,” n.d. |
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| 1:67 |
“Kindergarten Psychology,
Four Abstracts of Lectures” delivered at the
Kindergarten College, Chicago, Illinois, April
1899. Reprinted from School and Home
Education, Bloomington, Illinois |
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| 1:68 |
“Report of Committee on Psychological Inquiry—the Psychology of the Imitative Functions in Childhood as Related to the Process of Learning,” Reprint from Proceedings of the National Educational Association of paper read before the National Council at Asbury Park, N.J., July 7, 1894 |
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| 1:69 |
“Supplemental Report to the Report of the Special Committee on Pedagogical and Psychological Observation,” presented to the National Educational Association at St. Paul, Minn., July 1890 |
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| 1:70 |
Psychologic Foundations of Education, an Attempt to Show the Genesis of the Higher Faculties of the Mind, International Education Series, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898 |
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| 1:71 |
“The Old Psychology vs. the New,” delivered at the Massachusetts Schoolmasters’ Club, April 25, 1895, Journal of Education 46:18 (May 2, 1895) |
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| 1:72 |
“Rational Psychology for Teachers,” Reprinted from the Journal of Pedagogy, October 1898 |
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| 1:73 |
“The Psychological Revival. Educational Values of the Several Branches of Studies;” United States Bureau of Education, Chapters from the Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1893-94; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896 |
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| 1:74 |
“The Study of Arrested
Development in Children, as Produced by
Injudicious School Methods,” Southern
Educational Association, n.d. |
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| 1:75 |
“Primary and Secondary Phases of Causality, Natural Science Founded on the Latter and Theology on the Former,” read before the American Philosophical Association at Philadelphia, Pa., December 29, 1904 |
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| 1:76 |
“The Difference Between Efficient and Final Causes in Controlling Human Freedom,” paper read before the National Council of Education at Minneapolis, 1902, Reprint from The School Journal |
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| 1:77 |
“What the South is Doing for Education and What Education is doing for the South,” read at the National Congress of Education, Atlanta, Ga., October 26, 1895 |
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| 1:78 |
“The Growth of the Public High-School System in the Southern States and a Study of its Influence,” a paper read at the annual meeting of the Southern Educational Association at Atlanta, Ga.,, January 1, 1904, Reprinted from the Educational Review (March 1904) |
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| 1:79 |
“Higher Education in the South,” American Social Science Association, n.d. |
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| 1:80 |
“The Lesson of Goethe’s Faust,” n.d. |
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| 1:81 |
“Henry Barnard,” (3
copies), March 1891 |
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| 1:82 |
“Herbert Spencer and his Influence on Education,” Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association, 1904 |
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| 1:83 |
“Herbert Spencer and What to Study,” Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, September 1902 |
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| 1:84 |
“Herbart’s Doctrine of Interest,” Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, June 1895 |
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| 1:85 |
“Hegel’s Voyage of Discovery,” read before the American Philosophical Association, December 1903 |
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| 1:86 |
Journal of Speculative Philosophy, an Index, Volumes I-XV, ed. Wm. T. Harris, n.d. |
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| 1:87 |
“Had Lincoln Gone to College,” a Symposium by Alexander K. McClure, William T. Harris, E. Benjamin Andrews, Charles F. Thwing, Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Henry Clews, and William O. Stoddard, Success, February 1904 |
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| 1:88 |
“Is Education Possible without Freedom of the Will?” Reprinted from Education, January 1896 |
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| 1:89 |
“How the Will Combines with the Intellect in the Higher Orders of Learning,” abstract of paper for Round Table Discussion, National Council of Education, Buffalo, July 4, 1896 |
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| 1:90 |
“The Aesthetic Element in Education,” read before the National Council of Education at Milwaukee, July 1897 |
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| 1:91 |
“Professor John Dewey’s Doctrine of Interest as Related to Will,” Reprinted from the Educational Review, New York, May 1896 |
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| 1:92 |
“Compulsory Education in Relation to Crime and Social Morals,” n.d. |
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| 1:93 |
“The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment,” read before the National Prison Association of the U. S. at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 1890 |
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| 1:94 |
“Syllabus of Ten Lectures on the Philosophy of History,” Course in Philosophy, 1904, Columbian University, Washington, D.C., Department of Arts and Sciences |
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| 1:95 |
“The Philosophic Aspects of History,” Reprint from the Proceedings of the American Historical Association, 1890 |
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| 1:96 |
Syllabus of Topics for Oral Lessons in History, to which is added a Syllabus of Topics for Oral Lessons in Good Behavior and Etiquette for the St. Louis Public Schools, 1880 |
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| 1:97 |
Introduction to the Study of Philosophy, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1909 |
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| SERIES 2: Correspondence | |||||
| 2:1 |
J. M. Greenwood to William T. Harris ◙ Letter re. subscription for Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 12/12/1873 ◙ Postcard re. occupations of patrons of high school, 11/26/1877 ◙ Letter asking Harris for reconsideration of his resignation, 1/26/1880 ◙ Letter requesting copy of “Course of Instruction in Temperance,” 2/6/1883 ◙ Letter re. enclosed manuscript (not with letter), 8/13/1886 ◙ Letter re. acknowledging Harris in preface to book, 2/24/1887 ◙ Letter re. Greenwood’s Elementary School History of the United States, 3/12/1887 ◙ Letter with enclosure “Principles of Education Practically Applied” by Greenwood, 5/4/1888 ◙ Letter re. kinds of statistics with most value for school reports, 11/1/1888 |
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| 2:2 |
J. M. Greenwood to William T. Harris ◙ Letter re. distribution of writings, 4/4/1890 ◙ Letter re. Greenwood’s paper “Teaching Arithmetic in 1790 and in 1890,” 4/11/1890 ◙ Letter re. Harris’ “Manual Learning” and “Introduction to the Study of Philosophy,” 10/18/1892 ◙ Letter with thanks for Harris’ kind words to “American Literature,” reference to Horace Morgan, 3/11/1893 ◙ Letter about his book revisions and Dr. Hindsdale’s book, 10/22/1896 |
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| 2:3 |
J. M. Greenwood to William T. Harris (unless otherwise noted) ◙ Letter re. State Teachers’ Association, references to Frank, Jones, Flint, Crozier, Hegel, McClure’s Magazine, 5/15/1906 ◙ Letter, follow-up re. State Teachers’ Association meeting, 6/19/1906 ◙ Carbon copy of reply letter from Harris to Greenwood, re. State Teachers’ Association meeting, 6/22/1906 ◙ Letter re. State Teachers’ Association meeting, references to Frank and Soldan, 6/25/1906 ◙ Letter with enclosure, program for Missouri Teachers’ Association, Forty-Fifth Annual Session, December 27, 28, 29, 1906, 11/24/1906 ◙ Letter covering various topics, 11/2/1907 ◙ Letter with references to George T. Brown, supervised play movement, 9/3/1909 |
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| 2:4 |
Joseph Baldwin to William
T. Harris ◙ Letter requesting talk for students,
5/15/1871 ◙ Letter arranging talk for students,
5/31/1871 ◙ Letter thanking Harris for kind note
re. Baldwin’s talk to County Superintendent,
1/16/1875 ◙ Letter requesting copies of History
of Philosophy and Journal of Speculative
Philosophy, 11/21/1876 ◙ Letter requesting
Harris to spend two days in Jefferson City,
3/24/1878 |
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| 2:5 |
Joseph Baldwin to William T. Harris ◙ Letter re. trip through Texas, 7/4/1881 ◙ Invitation to Philosophy, Educational Psychology and Political Economy Department at Sam Houston Normal Institute, 8/19/1882 ◙ Letter re. Harris reading Baldwin’s work, 11/20/1886 ◙ Letter requesting reference, 2/11/1889 ◙ Letter with reference request and enclosure of card with clipping stating the addition of a chair of pedagogy in the University of California, 05/12/1889 |
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| 2:6 |
Joseph Baldwin to William T. Harris ◙ Letter of thanks, Applied Psychology nearly ready to print, 12/17/1890 ◙ Letter of thanks re. Applied Psychology and Teaching, 4/24/1891 ◙ Letter re. final proof, 5/11/1891 ◙ Letter re. “Experimental Psychology” page proof, 5/20/1891 ◙ Letter re. Texas State University creating University Normal College, 8/10/1891 ◙ Letter re. return from lectures at Mount Nebo Summer Normal and Applied Psychology and Teaching, 8/10/1891 ◙ Letter re. phantasm vs. fancy with enclosure of notes of return letter to Baldwin, mostly in shorthand, 8/11/1891 ◙ Letter of thanks, 8/12/1891 ◙ Letter re. submission of preface, 1/16/1892 ◙ Letter of thanks, Summer Normal in Texas, 5/25/1892 ◙ Letter re. summer in Ontario, 9/11/1896 ◙ Letter re. page proofs, 10/27/1896 ◙ Letter of thanks, 11/6/1896 ◙ Letter re. reading Psychological Foundations of Education and bringing Elementary Psychology and Education up to standard, 6/27/1898 |
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| 2:7 |
Ira Divoll to William T. Harris ◙ Letter re. new building at Kirksville, 1/5/1871 |
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| 2:8 |
O. P. Davis to William T. Harris ◙ Letter with 2 questions on cause and consciousness, 4/22/1872 ◙ Letter, continued discussion on consciousness, 5/16/1872 ◙ Letter, continued discussion on cause, 5/22/1872 ◙ Letter with list of books read, 1/11/1873 ◙ Letter with request for journal, 1/15/1873 ◙ Letter re. philosophy, 2/3/1873 |
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