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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Horace Mann
Born: May 4, 1796
Died: August 2, 1859 (aged 63)
Bio: Horace Mann was an American politician and educational reformer. A Whig devoted to promoting speedy modernization, he served in the Massachusetts State Legislature.
Known for:
- Life and works of Horace Mann
- Slavery: Letters and Speeches (1851)
- The Republic and the school
- On the Art of Teaching
- Lectures on Education (1845)
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