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Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South

Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South by Mayo, Rev. A. D.

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South
Author
Mayo, Rev. A. D.
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892. First edition. Very Good +. Listed on the front wrap as Bureau of Education Circular of Information NO. 1, 1892. Original printed wrappers with some minor chipping and paper loss, and with significant loss to crown and foot of spine. Front wrap loose at base but holding. Contemporary handwritten label on spine "Southern Women in Education." Two early ownership stamps to front wrapper and title page read "Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland OH" and "Compliments of Vincent A. Taylor, MC." Internally tight and pleasing, with the usual toning found in imprints of this era. While OCLC shows wide digital access to the text, only 3 institutions report the first edition in hardcopy. Rich with charts and statistics, Mayo's account of Southern education focuses in detail on women's role as educators and students in the decades following the Civil War. The report opens with information on "Schools for the Education of Southern White Girls," addressing the previous dearth of school access to girls of the region and articulating the curriculum that has developed following emancipation and in the struggle toward suffrage. Schools were to promote the idea that the new "national constitutional amendment [is] an ideal to be gradually realized" (a tacit justification here for the separation of white girls from their African American peers). For this category of student, the schools were also encouraged to focus on industrial skills and the creation of a new and advanced class of working Southerners, as well as the encouragement of women to take on new domestic responsibilites to support their families because "financial wreck of civil war [was] equivalent to reduction of supeior class to poverty." Notably, girls and women of the region were to be praised for their contributions -- the "heroic efforts of Southern women in rebuilding home life" while men of their generation struck out, often going North, to try to rebuild their fortunes. As the report continues, it also addresses the education of freed peoples as "the most memorable [movement] in modern history--a service of Southern people in giving freedmen the common schools" while acknowledging that the "path of school education is still a 'steep and rugged way' for majority of Southern youth--A full third of Southern children of legal school age are still outside school opportunities." The deeper one reads into the report, the more complex a view one gains of the South's struggles to redefine itself compared to the North in its views on gender, race, class, dialect, educational access, and job accessibility. Many of the systemic issues from before the war remain, as do hints of what would become a Jim Crow South, resistant as well to the idea of women's suffrage except insofar as it supported a more white-dominant electorate. At the same time, signs of progress also abound, and much of the praise and responsibility for it falls upon women and the rising generation of African Americans building lives in a freer nation. Very Good +.
Light and the Behavior of Organisms

Light and the Behavior of Organisms by Mast, Samuel Ottmar

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Title
Light and the Behavior of Organisms
Author
Mast, Samuel Ottmar
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Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
ISBN
1010370064398
Description
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1911. First printing. EARLY STUDY OF THE ROLE OF LIGHT IN GUIDING THE BEHAVIOR OF ANIMALS. 13.5x21 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, i-xi, 410 pp, 19 pp publisher's catalog. Cover edges rubbed, very good in custom archival mylar cover. SAMUEL OTTMAR MAST (1871 – 1947) was an American zoologist who studied behavioral physiology, particularly the response to light in protozoa. He received a BS from the University of Michigan in 1899 and worked on a PhD in zoology at Harvard after which he taught at Hope College. He was later invited to join Johns Hopkins University by Herbert Spencer Jennings, directing the zoology department in 1938 just before retiring. Mast's major contributions included a study of locomotion in amoebae. He suggested that the cytoplasm underwent changes in its qualities in different parts, coining the terms plasmasol and plasmagel. He also examined reactions to light in protozoa and invertebrates including analyses of the spectral sensitivity. REVIEW by Parker, G. H.: Mast's "Light and the behavior of organisms". Journal of Animal Behavior, Vol 1(6), Nov-Dec 1911, 461-464. doi: 10.1037/h0064398: "This volume is the outgrowth of the author's study of the process of orientation in plants and animals, and deals with the methods by which these organisms regulate their activities so as to bend or move toward or from a source of stimulation. The reviewer notes that the book discloses a wealth of facts, many of which are the results of the author's own investigations, and the text consequently has an air of critical authority not often found in extended scientific summaries. The reviewer also notes that the one chief flaw of the volume is one that has been inherited from earlier students in this field of work, and consists in the attempt to apply the trial and error method of orientation to the movements of many of the higher invertebrates, such as the earthworm, fly larvae, etc., to the exclusion of the tropism idea. The Biology Department at Hope College has had a fairly short life as colleges go, but a full one that has led to its present position of strength for the future. The beginning period began in 1898 when President Kollen decided that Hope College needed a Biology Department and hired Samuel Ottmar Mast as the first biology professor. Mast remained until 1908 when he moved to the newly established department of biology at Johns Hopkins University where he became renowned world-wide for his study of motion and behavior in protozoa.

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