Title: Typed Letter to Educator Harold Rugg of Columbia Teachers College Signed by Harold Taylor, President of Sarah Lawrence College. Together with a Carbon Copy of Rugg's Reply.
Description: Bronxville, NY: February 10th, 1951. 1951. - 61 words typed on a cream-colored 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheet of Sarah Lawrence College / Office of the President letterhead. Signed in blue ink "Harold Taylor". The top corners of the letterhead are lightly creased. At top right there are a paper-clip mark & pinholes where a staple has been removed. Folded twice for mailing. Very good.
Taylor writes to Harold Rugg of Columbia University's Teachers College asking him to refer to Sarah Lawrence any of his students who he thinks would be good candidates for their Master of Arts degree program. In the copy of his reply, Rugg writes that although Teachers College has no undergraduate students, he has often referred young people to the Sarah Lawrence graduate program and will continue to do so.
Dr. Harold Taylor [1914-1993] became the president of Sarah Lawrence College in 1945. He was known for his writing on education and philosophy, and for his stand against McCarthyism's interference with American education. A well-loved president, he pushed for racial integration and a more progressive environment. He worked with Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson II as a special consultant on human rights issues.
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 1940s. Very good .
Keywords: EDUCATION; PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION; HAROLD TAYLOR; PRESIDENT OF SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE; TYPED LETTER SIGNED; TLS; T.L.S.; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; HAROLD RUGG; COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S TEACHERS COLLEGE; SARAH LAWRENCE GRADUATE STUDIES PROGRAM.
- Book number: 94854
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