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Clara Eleanor Dillingham was born in 1868 in Coldwater, Michigan, the only child of Jennie Lincoln Dillingham and Captain Lucius Abell Dillingham. [1] [2] After being mainly home-schooled, she went on to complete a training program for kindergarten teachers in Chicago, Illinois.
The set included an index similar to the Great Books' Syntopicon, along with reading plans of increasing difficulty.Hutchins wrote an introduction with a more informal tone than he used in The Great Conversation, his preface to the Great Books, and that chiefly explained the relevance of most of the categories making up the set: "The Imagination of Man" (about fiction and drama), "Man and ...
The Four Books and Five Classics are authoritative and important books associated with Confucianism, written before 300 BC. [1] They are traditionally believed to have been either written, edited or commented by Confucius or one of his disciples.
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) Listed below are notable vintage radio programs associated with old-time radio, also ...
The idea of the Harvard Classics was presented in speeches by then President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University. [1] Several years prior to 1909, Eliot gave a speech in which he remarked that a three-foot shelf would be sufficient to hold enough books to give a liberal education to anyone who would read them with devotion.
Neith, goddess sometimes associated with wisdom; Thoth, originally a moon deity, later became the god of knowledge and wisdom and the scribe of the gods; Sia, the deification of wisdom
SF Masterworks is a series of science fiction novel reprints published by UK-based company Orion Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Hachette UK.The series is intended for the United Kingdom and Australian markets, but many editions are distributed to the United States and Canada by Hachette Book Group.
The Classics were an American vocal group formed in 1958 in Brooklyn.. The Classics first sang together in high school; two of them had previously sung in a group called The Del-Rays.