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Also included in this collection are 14 ephemeral publications and brochures relating to St. Stephen's College with programs and flyers for events, including 3 relating to the ritual burying of the algebra by incoming freshmen. The items were all apparently once removed from a scrapbook and thus the condition varies. A few have stains while several have remnants of paper or glue on the versos.
Following is a list of the images represented by the photographs:
1) The entrance to Potter Hall (part of Stone Row) with a horse-drawn cart.
2) An unidentified image which looks like a dormitory building.
3) Chapel of Holy Innocents and St. Margaret's Well with the Stone Row dormitories in the background
4) Chapel of Holy Innocents & St. Margaret's Well (1890) [Part of Stone Row in the background].
5) Bard Hall (1891). [There are glue or chemical stains to the edges of this photo].
6) An unidentified image. [This is a small photo with creasing & stains].
7) Aspinwall Hall.
8) Interior of the Chapel of Holy Innocents, Christmas 1890. (There is a light corner stain).
9) Chapel of Holy Innocents, 1891. (There is a light corner stain).
10) Interior of the Chapel of Holy Innocents (decorated at Christmas).
11) Chapel of Holy Innocents.
12) Landscape in snow, with the Chapel of Holy Innocents & St. Margaret's Well. (There is creasing to this photo, mainly at the edges).
13) "Stone Row" dormitories (1893), with the Chapel of Holy Innocents & St. Margaret's Well in the foreground.
14) Interior of a dorm room with 2 students.
15) A staged photo of 2 students in wedding attire, one is in drag.
16) Three Class of 1894 students. (This photo has a crease along the center).
17 through 22) Six different photos of Zabriskies Falls. (One, a small sepia-toned photo has a crease along the edge, another has minor creases and a third has a light stain).
23) Large group of students in front of the Chapel of Holy Innocents.
24) Three students. (There is creasing to this photo).
25) A view of the campus.
26) Photo of the Class of 1897. (This photo is quite dark).
27) Interior of a room with 2 students.
28) A group of 13 students (June 1893).
29) A view from the campus showing the Catskills & Hudson River.
30) A portrait of the President of the College, Robert B Fairbairn.
The ephemera related to St. Stephen's College consists of:
1) A 4-page "St. Stephen's College Glee Club" program bound in cream wraps titled in red with a silk cord. The program is dated "March '93" in ink at the bottom of the cover.
2) A 2-page "St. Stephen's College" brochure. The top edge of the second page is trimmed without loss of text.
3) A 4-page St. Stephen's College "Field Day / June 20, 1893" brochure with penciled notes indicating the winners.
4) The 4-page "Thirty-Fourth Commencement" program. Dated June 21, 1894.
5) "The St. Stephen's College Messenger" issue dated April 1896.
6) A broadside of the St. Stephen's College schedule and rules. The broadside is stained.
7) A small card with the program for the "Eulexian Society Reunion Supper" (a literary society), dated June 21, 1893.
8) An announcement printed on mourning stationery regretting that "The Class of Ninety-six" could not invite the recipient to "the burying of its Algebra on account of the secrecy of the burial". Together with the original mourning envelope.
9) A 3-page program for the "Laying of the Corner-stone" of the Hoffman Library dated June 22, 1893. Construction of the library began in 1893 and was completed in 1895.
10) A humorous description of the death and burial of algebra in 1894 and it's subsequent exhumation by the class of 1897. The 4-page announcement is printed on light gray card stock shaped as a tombstone. The original mourning envelope is present.
11) A 4-page program with class statistics entitled "Class Day S. Stephen's College. June 15, 1892". In addition to age, height and weight, the statistics include favorite drink ("brandy", "rain water", "blood" etc), favorite study ("himself", "women", "how to do nothing", etc)), favorite amusement "sleeping", scrapping", "being sick", etc), and others.
12) The 4-page "Thirty-Third Annual Commencement" program dated June 22, 1893 with profuse penciled notes.
13) Unused 4-page "St. Stephen's College" letterhead.
14) The 1894 "Funeral" program for algebra printed in red on buff card stock in the shape of a coffin. Purple mourning lines frame the edges of the 4 pages of card stock which is bound at the top with red cotton ribbon.
The tradition behind the burial of the algebra was sort of a light hazing ritual performed by freshmen students. Thirty days after arriving at Bard, the freshmen were to steal an algebra book which they were to then sign and bury with several bottles of wine. Then, the night before commencement the students now seniors, would dig it up and consume the wine, raising a toast to their graduating class. The ritual is described as follows in a 1930 issue of the Lyre Tree, a student newspaper: "There is a tradition of long standing at St. Stephen's that within 30 days after the close of the first semester the Freshman class shall, with all the ritual and solemnity due to the occasion, secretly inter an algebra, autographed by each member of the class and with it a certain quantity of wine. To be legal, every Freshman must be at the grave during the burial. At the end of the four years, the algebra is exhumed and burned on a funeral pyre, during the Class Day exercises. Toasts are drunk to the college and to the outgoing and incoming Senior class."
"St. Stephen's College was established as a Training College for the Ministry, and as such it was requested to make an annual report to the Convention of the Diocese of New York. The object was the supervision of the young men who had devoted themselves to the ministry of the Church. It was afterwards opened to any who would not disturb the general purpose for which it was originally instituted." [Quoted from "The Thirty-First Annual Catalogue of St. Stephen's College, Annandale, N.Y. 1892-93".
The land now owned by Bard College was once composed of several country estates, Blithewood, Bartlett, Sands, Cruger's Island, and Ward Manor/Almont among them. John & Margaret Bard purchased a part of the Blithewood estate in 1853. Renaming the property as Annandale, they established a parish school the following year. They then began building the Chapel of the Innocents next to Bard Hall in 1857 and the following year donated the unfinished Chapel and surrounding acreage to New York's Episcopal diocese which had promised financial support to grow the school into a theological college. St. Stephen's College was thus founded in 1860. In honor of its founder, the school changed its name to Bard College in 1934. Ten years later, in 1944, Bard became a co-educational school, welcoming female students and faculty. Good .
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerKissin writes to James B. Pond of the New York City Pond Lecture Bureau telling him she is planning a lecture tour of German-speaking countries in Europe and asking him to let her know whether German lecture agents have representatives in New York. "I speak in German and have credentials from, Postmaster General [Harry] New, Secretary [of State Frank B.] Kellogg and the German Ambassador".
Born in the U.S. in 1885 and educated in Germany and Russia to the age of fourteen, Rita Kissin returned to America to complete her education. After graduating from the Second International Montessori Training Course in Rome in 1914 she organized and operated Montessori kindergartens in New York and New Jersey. Two years later she began lecturing for the New York Board of Education on European travel and the Montessori Method. She worked briefly for the Universal Film Company in the 1920s, wrote publicity stories for Mary Pickford, Cecil B. De Mille and others and became Hollywood correspondent for Frankfurter Zeitung. In the thirties she studied psychology at the New School for Social Research and acted as a consultant in the Montessori Method to schools in Honolulu. Kissin was the author of children's books and also wrote about the Montessori Method and her own experiences of training for and practicing this method of teaching. Very good .
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Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "Happy reading, Naomi! / Love, / Madame Esme". Fine .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerFrom the library of the Rev. Walter Harris, D.D. of Dunbarton, N.H. signed by him on the back cover. Walter Harris was the first pastor of the Congregationalists in Dunbarton, N.H.
A catalogue listing the Presidents and faculty as well as the alumni of Darthmouth College from 1763 to 1843.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerThe brochure includes a biography of Miriam Finn Scott with her own account of her training and career, and a list of her lectures with comments on them by educational and child-rearing experts. Among the lectures are "How to Know Your Child", "A New Vision of Education", "Fathers and Children" and "Training for Motherhood". On the rear page is a Little, Brown & Co. listing of books by Scott that they have published and quotations from positive reviews.
Miriam Finn Scott (1882-1944) was born in Vilna, Russia and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1893. Her interest in child development was aroused by her first job working at a roof playground for children in 1898 and then managing a roof playground at the University Settlement in New York City. From 1903 to 1906 she worked at the Speyer School which expanded into a neighborhood settlement in Harlem where Scott became director of the "children's and girls club work". After postgraduate work in Europe in the field of educational psychology she felt confident that she could make her own independent contribution to parent education and in 1915 she founded a clinic called the Children's Garden. It became one of the first laboratory clinics where the relationship between parents and their children was explored. Very good .
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The American organizational theorist Ordway Tead (1891-1973) was an adjunct professor of industrial relations at Columbia University. He chaired the New York Board of Higher Education and was the first president of the Society for Advanced Management. As chair of the New York Board of Higher Education in 1941, Tead was involved in sacking faculty who belonged not only to Fascist or Nazi organizations but also those who belonged to Communist organizations. Actively involved in book publishing, Tead worked for McGraw Hill and Harper & Row while teaching at Columbia. Tead was also the author of 21 books.
One of the best-known educators during the Progressive era of education, Harold Rugg (1886-1960) was a professor of education at Teachers College of Columbia University. A Civil Engineer, he had become interested in how students learn and pursued a doctorate in education. He was responsible for producing the very first series of school textbooks from 1929 until the 1940's. Very good .
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"This book is a new production from teachers with a new thought. Both authors are teachers of experience in the District of Columbia Public Schools. In supplementing the work of the regular curriculum the have found it possible to teach pupils much about the background of the Negro without encroaching upon the work required in the prescribed courses.." [Quoted from the dust wrapper blurb]. Very good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerThe publication date is based on information in the catalog. The book was originally published in 1860. Good .
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Writing to Levi Lincoln, Governor of Massachusetts, Gray defends Harvard against the criticisms of its detractors. Among other complaints, critics decry the usefulness of teaching Greek and Latin and maintain that there are too few students at Harvard and that their expenses are too great. Good .
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The English writer, journalist and educator Arthur Mee (1875-1943) is best known for "The Harmsworth Self-Educator", "The Children's Encyclopaedia" and "The Children's Newspaper". He left school at 14 to work at a local newspaper and became an editor by the age of 20. Contributing many articles, he went to work for The Daily Mail in 1898 and subsequently became literary editor. Though they bore an anti-Catholic and anti-intellectual slant, his books continued to be published after his death at 67 years old, especially his guide to the counties of England "The King's England". "The Children's Encyclopaedia" was translated into Chinese and was published in the United States as "The Book of Knowledge". Fine .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerThe English writer, journalist and educator Arthur Mee (1875-1943) is best known for "The Harmsworth Self-Educator", "The Children's Encyclopaedia" and "The Children's Newspaper". He left school at 14 to work at a local newspaper and became an editor by the age of 20. Contributing many articles, he went to work for The Daily Mail in 1898 and subsequently became literary editor. Though they bore an anti-Catholic and anti-intellectual slant, his books continued to be published after his death at 67 years old, especially his guide to the counties of England "The King's England". "The Children's Encyclopaedia" was translated into Chinese and was published in the United States as "The Book of Knowledge". Very good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerA number of students' signatures with quotations are penned on the "Autographs" pages in the rear. Good .
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