英语词汇mcguffey-s reader的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

McGuffey’s reader. More than 123 million copies of McGuffey’s readers have been sold since they were first pub- lished in 1836, and as many as 30,000 copies were sold as re- cently as 1960. The school readers, noted for their moral lessons and selections from great English writers, have had a profound effect on the shaping of the American mind. They were the work of educator and linguist William Holmes McGuffey (1800–73). McGuffey, reared on the Ohio frontier, was pos- sessed of a phenomenal memory that enabled him to become a teacher at the age of 13. After graduating from Washington and Jefferson College in 1826, he became in turn a professor of lan- guages at Miami University in Ohio and president of both Cincinnati College and Ohio University. He later served as a professor at Woodward College, Cincinnati, and the University of Virginia, and was a founder of the Ohio public school sys- tem. The educator’s initial book was published under the title McGuffey’s First Eclectic Reader. Five more were to follow, the last being issued in 1857.

词汇	mcguffey-s reader
词源	McGuffey’s reader. More than 123 million copies of McGuffey’s readers have been sold since they were first pub- lished in 1836, and as many as 30,000 copies were sold as re- cently as 1960. The school readers, noted for their moral lessons and selections from great English writers, have had a profound effect on the shaping of the American mind. They were the work of educator and linguist William Holmes McGuffey (1800–73). McGuffey, reared on the Ohio frontier, was pos- sessed of a phenomenal memory that enabled him to become a teacher at the age of 13. After graduating from Washington and Jefferson College in 1826, he became in turn a professor of lan- guages at Miami University in Ohio and president of both Cincinnati College and Ohio University. He later served as a professor at Woodward College, Cincinnati, and the University of Virginia, and was a founder of the Ohio public school sys- tem. The educator’s initial book was published under the title McGuffey’s First Eclectic Reader. Five more were to follow, the last being issued in 1857.
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