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This book consists of a collection of lectures delivered to first year students at Vassar college in New England. In those days not many girls were privileged to receive a college education, and Vassar, a girls-only college, was among the finest. The lectures describe the high standards expected of these young women.
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Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers, almost all former military men, the fair reflected a business-military-engineering model that envisioned a promising future through science and technology's application to everyday life. But not everyone at Chicago's 1933 exposition had abandoned notions of progress that entailed social justice and equality, recognition of ethnicity and gender, and personal freedom and expression. The fair's ...
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Join the adventures of Mr. Tuckerman's spirited young nieces in this charming novel by Helen Dawes Brown. With humor and wit, Brown breathes life into these vibrant and irrepressible characters as they navigate the tests and trials of life in the early 20th century. Fans of Anne of Green Gables and other classic children's literature will love this tale of family and friendship. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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