The 1900s: Education: Deaths
THE 1900s: EDUCATION: DEATHS
Herbert Baxter Adams, 51, historian, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, 30 July 1901.
Susan B. Anthony, 86, a leader in the women's suffrage movement; also fought to secure women's rights in education, 13 March 1906.
Henry Barnard, 89, one of the most distinguished educators of the nineteenth century; a nationwide leader in the common-school movement, university president, and first U.S. Commissioner of Education, 21 July 1900.
Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett, 74, educator and diplomat; former principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia; renowned for being the nation's first African American diplomat, 1908.
Francis L. Cardozo, 66, clergyman, educator, and politician; former school principal; professor of Latin at Howard University; served as both secretary of state and state treasurer in South Carolina's Reconstruction government, 22 July 1903.
Jonas G. Clark, 85, who founded and endowed Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, 23 May 1900.
William Hooper Councill, 59, educator; first head of Alabama's State Normal and Industrial School, later renamed the Alabama State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes when, through Councill's efforts, it became a land-grant college, 17 April 1909.
William Howard Day, 75, abolitionist, newspaper editor, educator, former inspector-general for Freedmen's Bureau schools in Maryland and Delaware, 3 December 1900.
Sarah Ann Dickey, 65, teacher, founder and leader of the Mount Hermon Female Seminary, a school for African American women in Clinton, Mississippi, 23 January 1904.
Edward Eggleston, 64, educator, novelist, author of the popular novel of rural schooling The Hoosier School-master, 3 September 1902.
Josiah Willard Gibbs, 64, scientist, professor of mathematics at Yale, 28 April 1903.
Daniel Coit Gilman, 77, first president of Johns Hopkins University, under whose leadership the university became the model for the modern American research university, 13 October 1908.
William Torrey Harris, 74, educator, philosopher, former U.S. Commissioner of Education; known for his innovations in public schools, 5 November 1909.
Frank A. Hill, 61, former secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 12 September 1903.
Christopher Columbus Langdell, 80, legal educator; at Harvard University he originated the case-study method for teaching law, 6 July 1906.
Charles D. McIver, 45, southern school reformer, college president, member of the Southern Education Board, 17 September 1906.
Alice Freeman Palmer, 47, educator, college president, prominent leader in higher education, former president of Wellesley College, and first dean of women at the University of Chicago, 6 December 1902.
Caroline Elizabeth Bushyhead Quarles, 74, Cherokee teacher who helped develop the Cherokee nation's educational system, 23 February 1909.
At his death on 26 March 1902, British-born Cecil John Rhodes, who made a fortune in the diamond fields of southern Africa, bequeathed part of his wealth to an endowment establishing the Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford University.
John D. Runkle, 79, professor, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; popularized the Russian idea of industrial training in the United States, 8 July 1902.
Russell Sage, 90, financier, congressman, educational philanthropist, 22 July 1906.
Herbert Spencer, 83, English philosopher; greatly influenced American educational theory and practice by his endorsement of social Darwinism and his affirmation that science was the knowledge of greatest value, 8 December 1903.
David Augustus Straker, 65, politician, educator, lawyer, former dean and professor of law at Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina, 14 February 1908.
Emerson Elbridge White, 73, school superintendent, college president, 21 October 1902.
Marie E. Zakrzewska, 72, founder and president of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, one of the first institutions where female physicians and nurses could obtain clinical training, 12 May 1902.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
Japanese policy towards Islam in Malaya during the Occupation: A reassessment.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Japanese policy towards Islam At the start of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya between 1942 and 1945, the Military...Malay custom, and those sultans who did not obstruct the Japanese were allowed to retain their posts under the supervision...
|
|
Japanese Americans and Cultural Continuity: Maintaining Language and Heritage
Magazine article from: Ethnic Studies Review; 1/1/1998; 700+ words
; ...Inc, 1997). xix, 169 pp., $44. Japanese language schools in California are chronicled...of World War II based mainly on the UCLA Japanese American Research Project Collections, Japanese language newspapers, and literatures by...
|
|
Japanese foreign direct investment and regional trade.(Asia Adapts to Global Change)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Finance & Development; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...has boomed over the past decade as many Japanese companies have set up production facilities...patterns, and is it likely to continue? Japanese investment in companies abroad has surged...1980s, sparking debate on whether the Japanese economy is "hollowing out." Flows...
|
|
Japanese nearly double sales of U.S. real estate.
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 6/21/1995; 700+ words
; Japanese disinvestment of U.S. real estate assets...their U.S. real estate portfolios, the Japanese are concentrating on selling their properties...has tracked a total of $77 billion of Japanese investment in U.S. real estate...
|
|
Japanese relationships in White Australia: the Sydney experience to 1941.(social relationships between Japanese and Australians)
Magazine article from: History Australia; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Japanese people enjoyed good relations with White...These positive relations continued as Japanese immigrated to Australia under the exemptions...1940. This article examines the Sydney Japanese network and its interrelationships with...
|
|
Japanese Travelers Learning That It's Dangerous Out There
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/11/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...the world's newest economic giant, Japanese are traveling, working and living abroad...everywhere they go. And everywhere they go, Japanese are discovering another fruit of economic...Self-Defense Handbook" issued by the Japanese Overseas Enterprises Association urged...
|
|
JAPANESE LIKE ME; EUROPEAN AMERICANS MASQUERADE AS JAPANESE FOLK IN BIZARRO-WORLD ISSUE OF LOCAL JAPANESE-LANGUAGE PAPER
Magazine article from: The Stranger; 3/31/2004; ; 700+ words
; Soy Source is a local Japanese-language newspaper that distributes 7,500 copies on the 10th and 25th of each month. Its readers are primarily Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans, and, with the sole exception of the president...
|
|
|
Japanese Prime Minister Steps Cautiously Around Issue of Aid to Mexico
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/7/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...introduced his three children to visiting Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu here yesterday, they greeted him in fluent Japanese. Recounting the greeting with evident...from 9 to 14, have attended the Japanese-Mexican School here. Their enrollment...
|
|
Japanese credit crunch stalls two local resorts. (Ritz-Carlton Hotel; Four Seasons Aviara Resort)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal; 4/15/1991; ; 700+ words
; Japanese credit crunch stalls two local resorts A Japanese lending crunch has stalled work on the $65 million Ritz...million. Both projects are now idling as they wait for Japanese construction loans. Meanwhile, two other local resorts...
|
|
The Japanese in Latin America/Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
Magazine article from: Latin American Politics and Society; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...with Sayaka Funada-Classen, The Japanese in Latin America, Urbana: University...ed., Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism. Durham...21.95. Both these books examine Japanese migration to Latin America. Whereas...
|
|
Japanese American Evacuation Cases
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
JAPANESE AMERICAN EVACUATION CASES In the midst...1942 to 1944, the U.S. Army evacuated Japanese Americans living on the West Coast from...evacuate both citizens and noncitizens of Japanese ancestry, and its actions were supported...
|
|
Japanese Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Japanese Americans There may well be no other group...States. Like other immigrant groups, Japanese Americans ( Nikkei ) embody the struggles...in the United States, the attempts of Japanese Americans to take advantage of what American...
|
|
Japanese Philosophy, Japanese Thought
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
JAPANESE PHILOSOPHY, JAPANESE THOUGHT. To write about Japanese intellectual history is to take part in the lasting Japanese scholarly tradition of recalling the past in order to make sense out of the present, that is, the writing of Japanese...
|
|
Japanese Management
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management
Japanese Management JAPANESE KEIRETSU The Japanese have had a phenomenal impact on world markets. Many industries, such as electronics, cameras, watches, motorcycles, machine tools, automotive products, shipbuilding, and even some aspects...
|
|
Japanese-Americans
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Japanese-Americans. The war led to profound changes in the status of Japanese-Americans in the USA. For members of the American...test of the assimilationist aspirations that led Japanese-Americans to believe that they could gain acceptance...
|
