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History of Tri-M Honor Society.
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Harley, Frances M. – Music Educators Journal, 1984
The Modern Music Masters Society had its origins during the Great Depression in the Maine Music Masters, formed to honor high school students who performed at school and on local church and civic programs. Incorporated in 1952, the society today has chapters in all states and in foreign countries. (RM)
Descriptors: Educational History, High Schools, Honor Societies, Music Education
Colorado's Frank E. Thompson and the Growth of Kappa Delta Pi into a National Society.
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Davis, O. L., Jr. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 1980
This biography traces the career of Frank E. Thompson, a professor of education at the University of Colorado, and highlights his crucial role in developing Kappa Delta Pi as a national society when he served as its second national president from 1917-1919. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational History, Higher Education, Honor Societies
The American Scholar in the Early National Period: The Changing Context of College Education, 1782-1837.
Wagner, Marta – 1983
Positions taken in Phi Beta Kappa orations between 1782 and 1837 were examined to determine whether partisan stands were taken on controversial issues. The orations that were located suggest that the speakers' social and political choices did not correlate with specific systems of ideas. The Enlightenment offered intellectual arguments as ways to…
Descriptors: Archives, Educational History, Higher Education, Honor Societies
AALS Publishing in the 50s: Predecessors of JEL.
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Winger, Howard W. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1985
Chronicles derivation of "Journal of Education for Library and Information Science" (formerly "Journal of Education for Librarianship") in 1960 from three earlier Association of American Library Schools (AALS) publications: "Report of Meeting,""Directory,""Newsletter." Events and personalities in…
Descriptors: Directories, Higher Education, History, Honor Societies
Phi Beta Kappa in American Life. The First Two Hundred Years.
Current, Richard Nelson – 1990
A complete history is provided of the Phi Beta Kappa society, tracing its growth from a local debating club to a national organization which today boasts a quarter of a million members. The history charts the society's development and reveals the friction over the shift away from the classics toward liberal education and the electives system, the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Change, Educational History, Females
Educational Directory, 1914-15. Bulletin, 1914, No. 43. Whole Number 617
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
This 1914-1915 educational directory published by the United States Bureau of Education covers the following categories: (1) Officers of the United States Bureau of Education; (2) Principal State school officers; (3) Officers of State boards of education; (4) Executive officers of State library commissions; (5) Superintendents in cities and towns…
Descriptors: Organizations (Groups), Government Libraries, Superintendents, Parochial Schools
Secondary Education in 1921 and 1922. Bulletin, 1923, No. 12
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Deffenbaugh, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
In the report of the Commissioner of Education for the year 1914 is the statement that so far as the-number of secondary schools is concerned the great majority are undoubtedly continuing traditional activities without consideration of the needs the pupils or the results actually obtained. This same assertion can be made today of many…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Enrollment Trends, Public Schools, Private Schools