Recollections of a Long Life (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Joseph Packard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331809606 ISBN 13 : 9781331809609

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

An inside look at how an Episcopal high school was born and shaped by faith, leaders, and hard work.

Foundations of Faith and Learning traces the origins of the Episcopal High School in Virginia, from its earliest plans to its first years of teaching. The narrative centers on mission, leadership, and the people who helped the school take its first steps, including the role of rector Rev. Wm. N. Pendleton and the early faculty who built its program.

• How the school opened in 1839 with thirty-five students and four teachers, and the costs that came with the first session.
• The impact of strong religious life and notable teachers, some of whom would become important church leaders.
• The challenges the school faced, including financial strain and the 1844 suspension, tied to rapid growth and fundraising.
• The reopening in 1845 and the evolving structure of the curriculum, dormitory arrangements, and faculty loyalties.

Ideal for readers of church history, educational beginnings, and memoir-style histories of religious schools.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

My father felt a deep interest in biography, but was persuaded that it should be confined within narrow limits. He thought that, as Dean Burgon said, while yet the man lived freshly in the memory of his friends, while his sayings were remembered, and his aspect and demeanor were easily recalled, then one who knew him well should commit to paper a living image of the man, should so exhibit him that later generations might feel that they had seen and known him. Many of the worlds good men have no personal memorial because this was not done. I have not attempted a complete biography of my father, but I aided him in preparing for the press these Recollections of a Long Life, which in part were published in the Protestant Episcopal Review about six years ago. Subsequent conversations have added more material, and the entire work has been carefully examined and re-edited. His published discourses and the admirable sketch of the Alumni by Dr. Dalrymple have also been used. His life and work touched many other lives, therefore these recollections have a wider interest than for his family alone. I trust they may preserve his person and memory from oblivion. The greatest thing a man sometimes leaves is not a book, but a personality. The greatest book in the world is so great because of the personality that is in it, and thus in their degree with all others. If we had to choose between a mere book without a living personality in it and a living personality without a book, we should prefer the last. It may disappear for a time in other lives, but it has done its work, and it will live and come to light in its results on a day when the sun shall no more go down. THOMAS J. PACKARD. Rockvi UvE, Maryland, December 8, 1902.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331809606
• ISBN 13: 9781331809609
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 388
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