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Reber, Louis E. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
In the United States, as early as 1831, features of university extension appeared in the work of the American National Lyceum, an organization which, though not associated with any educational institution, was instrumental in the wide spread of popular education. In 1874 a new agent of popular education, the Chautauqua movement, began to make…
Descriptors: Violence, Popular Education, Extension Education, Extension Agents