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Donald George Tewksbury (1894- 1958) was an American scholar and of progressive education. Donald George Tewksbury 1894. He became professor of Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and served as president of Bard College 193?? as it inaugurated progressive reforms. His book Founding of American colleges and universities before the Civil War: With particular Reference to the Religious Influences bearing upon the College movement (1932), several sourcebooks on East Asian political ideology. [1]
Early life and education
[edit]Tewskbury was born in , China, son of
During the Boxer Uprising, Tewksbury was eight years old, he and his family took shelter in the British Embassy. After the Allied forces lifted the siege, he told a missionary interviewer that "Chinese soldiers were around us all the time, shooting with big guns and rifles, trying to kill us," and that they "tried to burn our houses, by burning the houses around us, but they did not succeed." the family went to a "Prince's Palace" to live (the Prince was nine years old, and had a cart and little donkey).[2]
Scholarship
[edit]Cowley, W. H. 1933. Journal of Higher Education 4 (2): 104–5. doi:10.2307/1975286.
Bard College
[edit]Presidents of the College. https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/bardbw_presidents/ Klein, Education for the Common Good pp. 102-110 https://www.bard.edu/archives/voices/Kline-Education/Complete.pdf
Donald Tewksbury Hall, built in 1958, is named in his honor. [3]
Major works
[edit]Tewksbury, Donald George. The Founding of American Colleges and Universities Before the Civil War, with Particular Reference to the Religious Influences Bearing Upon the College Movement: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1932.
Tewksbury, Donald George. An Educational Program for Bard College: A Preliminary Statement Submitted for the Consideration of the Board of Trustees of the College. Bard College, Columbis University, 1934.
References
[edit]- Naylor, Natalie A. (1973), "The Ante-Bellum College Movement: A Reappraisal of Tewksbury's Founding of American Colleges and Universities", History of Education Quarterly, 13 (3): 261–74, doi:10.2307/367306. Accessed 25 Sept. 2024.
- https://boxerindemnityscholars.wordpress.com/2018/02/25/d-g-tewksbury/
- The Burke Library Archives, Columbia University Libraries, Union Theological Seminary, New York Missionary Research Library Archives: Section 6 Finding Aid for Elwood G. and Donald G. Tewksbury Papers, 1872 – 1959
Notes
[edit]- ^ The Burke Library Archives, Columbia University Libraries, Union Theological Seminary, New York Missionary Research Library Archives: Section 6 Finding Aid for Elwood G. and Donald G. Tewksbury Papers, 1872 – 1959
- ^ Mateer, Ada Haven (1903). Siege Days: Personal Experiences of American Women and Children during the Peking Siege. New York: F. H. Revell Company. pp. 358-358
- ^ Donald Tewksbury Hall
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