Author: WALSH, James J.
Title: Education of the Founding Fathers of the Republic: Scholasticism in the Colonial Colleges -- a Neglected Chapter in the History of American Education
Description: New York, Fordham University Press, 1935. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and medallion. xii, 377pp. Illustrations. Very good. Tight and internally fine, with binding showing the very faintest of edgewear and spine lightly sunned, with faint lettering near foot; discreet non-circulating ex-library, with miniscule inkstamp of Wisconsin convent on front flyleaf and bottom of title page. Handsome first edition of this important survey of colonial college teaching methods and philosophy -- and bearing an outstanding presentation inscription and signature from the author in black ink on front flyleaf: "Memoriae ergo / in memory of old days / and old friends / Rev Mother Samuel / Jas J Walsh / All good wishes to all / Sometimes a little memento at / Mother Emily's grave." Recipient Reverend Mother Samuel (1868-1959) was the influential Prioress of the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa founded in 1847 by pioneering priest Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, a notable teaching institution in southwest Wisconsin; she rose to that position in 1909 and over 40 years grew its membership from 617 in 1910 to 1,547 in 1949, its mission expanding all the while. The "Mother Emily" noted in his postscript he also knew: Mother Emily (Ellen Power, 1844-1909) was Mother Samuel's predecessor and Sinsinawa's first Prioress; appointed at age 23 in 1867, she raised their ranks from around 50 to more than 400 during her 42-year tenure. Mary Synon, in her 1955 biography "Mother Emily of Sinsinawa: American Pioneer," writes (p. 261) of the relation between Walsh and the Prioress: "On Friday morning, October 15, [1909] she was noticeably worse but she insisted on seeing Dr. James J. Walsh of Fordham, who had come to the Mound to give a lecture upon his special subject, 'The Thirteen, Greatest of Centuries.' Dr. Walsh, who was physician as well as doctor of philosophy, saw her condition and became alarmed. 'Call your doctor and a priest,' he told Sister Adrian. 'This is pneumonia. Mother Emily is dying.'" She declined the priest, but Walsh persisted and "Father Edward S. McGinnis, brought her the Last Sacraments. She lapsed, almost immediately, into a coma, and did not wake again." This exceptional presentation copy is thus inscribed to a noted Dominican official and references another in whose final illness he was involved. Walsh (1865-1942) was the American physician and long-time dean of Fordham University's school of medicine as well as author who penned a prolific number of titles on the history of medicine, education and Catholic topics. .
Keywords: Colonial Americana Education
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Title: Education of the Founding Fathers of the Republic: Scholasticism in the Colonial Colleges -- a Neglected Chapter in the History of American Education
Description: New York, Fordham University Press, 1935. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and medallion. xii, 377pp. Illustrations. Very good. Tight and internally fine, with binding showing the very faintest of edgewear and spine lightly sunned, with faint lettering near foot; discreet non-circulating ex-library, with miniscule inkstamp of Wisconsin convent on front flyleaf and bottom of title page. Handsome first edition of this important survey of colonial college teaching methods and philosophy -- and bearing an outstanding presentation inscription and signature from the author in black ink on front flyleaf: "Memoriae ergo / in memory of old days / and old friends / Rev Mother Samuel / Jas J Walsh / All good wishes to all / Sometimes a little memento at / Mother Emily's grave." Recipient Reverend Mother Samuel (1868-1959) was the influential Prioress of the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa founded in 1847 by pioneering priest Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, a notable teaching institution in southwest Wisconsin; she rose to that position in 1909 and over 40 years grew its membership from 617 in 1910 to 1,547 in 1949, its mission expanding all the while. The "Mother Emily" noted in his postscript he also knew: Mother Emily (Ellen Power, 1844-1909) was Mother Samuel's predecessor and Sinsinawa's first Prioress; appointed at age 23 in 1867, she raised their ranks from around 50 to more than 400 during her 42-year tenure. Mary Synon, in her 1955 biography "Mother Emily of Sinsinawa: American Pioneer," writes (p. 261) of the relation between Walsh and the Prioress: "On Friday morning, October 15, [1909] she was noticeably worse but she insisted on seeing Dr. James J. Walsh of Fordham, who had come to the Mound to give a lecture upon his special subject, 'The Thirteen, Greatest of Centuries.' Dr. Walsh, who was physician as well as doctor of philosophy, saw her condition and became alarmed. 'Call your doctor and a priest,' he told Sister Adrian. 'This is pneumonia. Mother Emily is dying.'" She declined the priest, but Walsh persisted and "Father Edward S. McGinnis, brought her the Last Sacraments. She lapsed, almost immediately, into a coma, and did not wake again." This exceptional presentation copy is thus inscribed to a noted Dominican official and references another in whose final illness he was involved. Walsh (1865-1942) was the American physician and long-time dean of Fordham University's school of medicine as well as author who penned a prolific number of titles on the history of medicine, education and Catholic topics. .
Keywords: Colonial Americana Education
Price: US$ 395.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50871
- Book number: 50871
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