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Mann, Horace

  1. A legislator and educational reformer of the nineteenth century. In his home state of Massachusetts , Mann worked to increase the availability and quality of free, nondenominational public schools. Mann has been called the father of the American public school.


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And we had a son, and I wanted him to go to Horace Mann like I did.

It was held in memory of a Horace Mann athlete who had succumbed to polio in 1950.

The Times focused on men who say they were abused at Horace Mann as boys.

I have a daughter now, and she is starting the seventh grade, the same age as I was when I first entered the Horace Mann School.

Feeling fit helps me to conquer the memories of the helplessness I felt at Horace Mann.

Dr. Craig was the man whom Horace Mann thought it constituted an era in his life to know.

Humanitarians, like Horace Mann, took up independently the fight for free public education and carried it to success.

Mr. Horace Mann is engaged on a work illustrating his ideas of the character, condition, and proper sphere of woman.

Such text-books shall be supplied to the Horace Mann School as the committee on that school shall approve.

One of the first of these was Horace Mann, born in Massachusetts in 1796, the son of a poor farmer.

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