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Frank Manny papers, 1890-1955

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Creator:
Manny, Frank Addison, 1868-1954
Abstract:
Progressive educator, student of Thomas Dewey at the University of Chicago, served as head of the state Normal School at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, superintendent of the Felix Adler School of Ethical Culture in New York City and as head of teacher education in the city of Baltimore. The papers include extensive personal correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, writings and other materials concerning his professional interests. Correspondence includes letters from distinguished authors and educators.
Extent:
6 linear feet
Language:
English.
Call Number:
852267 Aa 2
Authors:
Finding aid prepared by: Mia Butzbaugh

Background

Scope and Content:

The papers consist of extensive personal correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, writings and other materials concerning his professional interests. Included are, letters from distinguished authors and educators. Much of the collection relates to the progressive education movement and to Manny's career as an educator in Grand Rapids, Chicago, and Boxford, Massachusetts.

Biographical / Historical:

Frank Addison Manny was a progressive educator who believed in applying "an attitude of inquiry" to the classroom. Manny explored the philosophical, psychological, and moral dimensions of pedagogy and learning. As a critic of standardization, he was interested in the practical benefits of experimental education and in adapting industrial education to workers' concerns.

Born in Mounds, Illinois on June 24, 1868, Manny was raised in Michigan City, Indiana. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan in 1893 and, in 1896, a Master of Arts. On June 24, 1904, Manny married Annette Sawyer. He died in 1954.

Manny held several positions during the course of his career as a teacher and trainer of teachers. Manny was hired as a high school principal in Moline, Illinois in 1894. During his two years there, he established an extension program for the education of factory workers. From 1896 to 1897, Manny worked at the University of Chicago as an assistant in pedagogy to Professor John Dewey, a philosopher and educational theorist whose writings had an impact on educational reform internationally. In Chicago, Manny studied the university's Experimental School whose classrooms, according to Dewey's principles, broke with formal curricula and attempted to relate ideas to practical life.

During the academic year starting in the fall of 1897, Manny was the supervisor of public schools in Indianapolis, Indiana. Then, from 1998 to 1900, he headed Wisconsin's State Normal School, based in Oshkosh. He subsequently moved to New York City where, for six years, he was superintendent of the Felix Adler School of Ethical Culture.

Returning to Michigan in 1908, Manny headed the education and extension departments of Western State Normal School in Kalamazoo until 1911. He also directed and taught at the Allegany County (Maryland) Teachers' Continuation School from 1909 to 1911. Settling permanently in the East, Manny became the director of teacher training for the city of Baltimore (1911 to 1915).

In 1915, Manny directed his interests to the effects of malnutrition. For three years, he studied and reported upon the nutrition of children and families for the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor in New York City. He subsequently did similar work in Boston in collaboration with Dr. William R.P. Emerson.

During his professional life, Manny contributed articles to educational journals and magazines that addressed social topics. He briefly contracted with the United States Bureau of Education, for which he wrote a brochure, City Training Schools for Teachers (1914). Manny lectured widely about education issues as well as such topics as his support of women's suffrage, the importance of inspecting private and parochial schools, and the effectiveness of curfews. Manny also wrote dozens of poems, some of which were published.

Manny did extensive research into the folklore and genealogy of the people of Boxford, Massachusetts, the small town in which he and his wife settled. Many of Manny's findings and musings about this community were published in his North Shore Breeze columns. He also authored Boxfordians in 1923, Boxford Genealogies in 1926, and Time Will Tell--A Tercentenary Pageant in 1930.

Manny was active in a number of social and professional organizations, among them the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Child Welfare League in New York; Committee on Training for Social Service; Just Government League; Men's League for Women's Suffrage; National Education Association; NAACP; Phi Beta Kappa; Prisoners' Aid Society; School Arts League; Social Workers' Bureau; Society for Ethical Culture; and the YMCA Educational Committee. Manny also served on the editorial board of the Atlantic Educational Journal and the advisory boards for the Journal of Educational Psychology and the School Journal.

Acquisition Information:
This collection is a gift of the Estate of Frank Addison Manny of Boxford, Massachusetts. Paul S. Harris, Executor. It was received at the library in February 1956. Donor no. 3191
Arrangement:

Frank Addison Manny's papers are divided into five series: Clippings, Lectures, and Writings; Correspondence; Photographs; Scrapbooks; and Journals.

Subjects

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Subjects:
Academic freedom.
Education.
Judaism.
Religion.
Formats:
Diaries.
Photographic prints.
Names:
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Manny, Annette Sawyer.
Manny, Frank Addison, 1868-1954.
Adamic, Louis, 1899-1951.
Adams, Henry Carter, 1851-1921.
Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949.
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Adler, Felix, 1851-1933.
Agassiz, Mabel.
Allen, Devere, 1891-1955.
Angell, James Burrill, 1829-1916.
Angell, James Rowland, 1869-1949.
Asbury, Hubert, 1891-1963.
Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934.
Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956.
Ayres, Clarence Edwin, 1891-1972.
Baker, George Pierce, 1866-1935.
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946.
Barrows, Alice P.
Barton, Bruce, 1886-1967.
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012.
Bates, George Joseph, 1891-1949.
Baxter, James Phinney, 1893-1975.
Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948.
Becker, May Lamberton, 1873-1958.
Belding, Anson Wood.
Beston, Henry, 1888-1968.
Bingham, Walter Van Dyke, 1880-1952.
Bishop, William Warner, 1871-1955.
Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977.
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Bodley, J. H.
Bolton, Charles Knowles, 1867-1950.
Bradford, Gamaliel, 1863-1932.
Brasch, Frederick E. (Frederick Edward), 1875-1967.
Bridgman, P. W. (Percy Williams), 1882-1961.
Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1855-1934.
Bristow, Gwen, 1903-
Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970.
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.
Brown, Elmer Ellsworth, 1861-1934.
Brown, Henry B., 1847-1917.
Brush, Katharine, 1902-1952.
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955.
Buck, Gertrude, 1871-1922.
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo), 1874-1965.
Burnham, William Henry, 1855-1941.
Burritt, Balley Barton, 1878-1954.
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947.
Butterfield, Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech), 1868-1935.
Cabot, William Brooks, 1858-1949.
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961.
Caplan, Abraham.
Carhart, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1844-1920.
Carrel, Alexis, 1873-1944.
Carroll, Gladys Hasty, 1904-1999.
Cathcart, C. C.
Catlin, George B. (George Byron), 1857-1934.
Charters, W. W. (Werrett Wallace), 1875-1952.
Chase, Mary Ellen, 1887-1973.
Childs, Harold Farnsworth.
Churchill, Alfred Vance, 1864-1934.
Claxton, Philander Priestley, 1862-1957.
Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978.
Connick, Charles Jay, 1875-1945.
Corwin, E. H. L. (Edward Henry Lewinski), 1885-1953.
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989.
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942.
Cross, Ira Brown, 1880-
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946.
Cullen, Yolande Dubois.
Dabney, Virginius, 1901-1995.
Daly, Arnold, 1875-1927.
Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1881-1950.
Daniels, Jonathan, 1902-1981.
Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981.
Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944.
Dawson, Percy M. (Percy Millard), 1873-
Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945.
Demmon, Isaac Newton, 1842-1920.
Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Dieffenbach, Albert C.
D'Ooge, Martin Luther, 1839-1915.
Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), 1866-
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
Dunbar, Daphne.
Dutton, Samuel Train, 1849-1919.
Dykema, Peter W. (Peter William), 1873-1951.
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969.
Easton, Emily.
Edgell, George Harold, 1887-1954.
Eliot, Thomas H. (Thomas Hopkinson), 1907-1991.
Engel, Leonard, 1916-1964.
English, Colin.
Evans, Elizabeth Glendower, 1856-1937.
Farrell, Charles H., 1873-
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958.
Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959.
Folks, Homer, 1867-1963.
Frank, Glenn, 1887-1940.
Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967.
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965.
Fuess, Claude Moore, 1885-1963.
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940.
Gavit, John Palmer, 1868-1954.
Gibson, Emily S. Gilbert.
Gleason, Arthur, 1878-1923.
Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950.
Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972.
Granstead, Durand.
Grant, Wilbur H.
Guerard, Albert Leon, 1880-1959.
Hailmann, W. N. (William Nicholas), 1836-1920.
Hall, G. Stanley (Granville Stanley), 1844-1924.
Halsey, R. H.
Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937.
Hard, Anne.
Hard, William, 1878-1962.
Harper, William Rainey, 1856-1906.
Hart, Joseph K. (Joseph Kinmont), 1876-1949.
Hartzell, Morton C., Mrs.
Haynes, Royal Storrs, 1877-
Henderson, C. Hanford (Charles Hanford), 1861-1941.
Herrick, Cheesman Abiah, 1866-1956.
Herron, George Davis, 1862-1925.
Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940.
Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982.
Higginson, Mary Potter Thacher, 1844-1941.
Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966.
Holbrook, Stewart Hall, 1893-1964.
Holtzoff, Alexander, 1886-1969.
Hopkins, Ernest Martin, 1877-1964.
Howe, A. A. DeWolfe.
Hoxie, Robert Franklin, 1868-1916.
Hunt, Jean Lee.
James, Edmund J. (Edmund Janes), 1855-1925.
James, Howard M.
Jennings, H. S. (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947.
Johnston, Eric A. (Eric Allen), 1895-1963.
Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932.
Kidd, Thomas I.
Kirstein, Louis Edward, 1867-1942.
LaFetra, Linnaeus Edford, 1868-
Lane, Gertrude.
Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968.
Lanier, Charles D., Mrs.
Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950.
Lefavour, Henry, 1862-1946.
Lerner, Max, 1902-1992.
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1882-1955.
Lilienthal, David Eli, 1899-1981.
Linville, Henry R. (Henry Richardson), 1866-1941.
Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974.
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902-1985.
Lord, Russell, 1895-1964.
Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956.
Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943.
MacLean, Eugene.
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982.
MacMillan, D. P.
MacNeill, Ben Dixon, 1889-1960.
Malone, Dumas, 1892-1986.
Mann, Charles Riborg, 1869-1942.
Marks, Jeannette Augustus, 1875-1964.
Marquand, John P. (John Phillips), 1893-1960.
Marshall, Margaret.
Martin, George H. (George Henry), 1841-1917.
Mather, Kirtley F. (Kirtley Fletcher), 1888-1978.
Mead, George Herbert, 1863-1931.
Meiklejohn, Alexander, 1872-1964.
Mertz, David Franklin, -1900.
Metcalf, Elinor Gregory.
Mills, Benjamin Fay, 1857-1916.
Monroe, Paul, 1869-1947.
Morgan, Arthur Ernest, 1878-1975.
Morgan, James.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.
Morley, Felix, 1894-
Morris, Lloyd R., 1893-1954.
Mott, John Raleigh, 1865-1955.
Muldoon, William.
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
Munsterberg, Margarete Anna Adelheid, 1889-
Murrg, F. M.
Mussey, Henry Raymond, 1875-1940.
Nichols, Walter Hammond, 1866-1935.
Oppenheim, James, 1882-1932.
O'Shea, Michael Vincent, 1866-1932.
Palmer, Frank Herbert, 1853-1936.
Palmer, George Herbert, 1842-1933.
Parker, Francis W. (Francis Wayland), 1837-1902.
Partridge, Bellamy, 1877-1960.
Patten, Simon Nelson, 1852-1922.
Payne, E. George (Enoch George), 1877-1953.
Pearl, Edward E.
Peattie, Donald Culross, 1898-1964.
Perry, Clarence Arthur, 1872-1944.
Perry, Maude Elaine Caldwell, 1873-1963.
Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943.
Phillips, James Duncan, 1876-
Porter, Kenneth.
Pressey, Edward Pearson.
Price, Lucien, 1883-1964.
Putnam, William Lowell, Mrs., 1862-1935.
Rannells, B. U.
Richardson, Hilary Goode, 1874-
Rogers, Will, 1911-1993.
Rolfe, John Carew, 1859-1943.
Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991.
Roper, Richard F.
Rowe, Stuart H.
Rugg, Winnifred King.
Rumely, Edward A. (Edward Aloysius), 1882-1964.
Russell, James E. (James Earl), 1864-1945.
Saint-Gaudens, Homer, 1880-1958.
Sancton, Thomas Wolfe, 1915-
Sanford, Daniel Sammis, 1859-1936.
Sargent, Walter, 1868-1929.
Savage, Toy Dixon, 1878-1941.
Saxon, Lyle, 1891-1946.
Sayre, Francis Bowes, 1885-1972.
Schaeffer, Mary F.
Schwartz-Buys, E.
Scott, Fred Newton, 1860-1931.
Scudder, Myron Tracy, 1860-1935.
Seabrook, William, 1887-
Seashore, Carl E. (Carl Emil), 1866-1949.
Sedgwick, Ellery, 1872-1960.
Seymour, Charles, 1885-1963.
Shaw, Paula A.
Shepard, Odell, 1884-1967.
Slosson, Edwin Emery, 1865-1929.
Slosson, Preston W. (Preston William), 1892-1984.
Smith, Glanville.
Smith, Lillian Eugenia, 1897-1966.
Smith, Thomas Vernor, 1890-1964.
Snedden, David, 1868-1951.
South, Lloyd V.
Spencer, Anna Garlin, 1851-1931.
Stark, Otto, 1859-1926.
Steele, Thomas Clement, 1847-1926.
Stein, Clarence S.
Storrow, Helen Osborne.
Suzzallo, Henry, 1875-1933.
Swift, Edgar James, 1860-1932.
Talbert, Edward.
Talbot, Marion, 1858-1948.
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944.
Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938.
Thomas, Lowell, 1892-1981.
Todd, J. Liberty.
Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919.
Triggs, Oscar Lovell, 1865-1930.
Tyner, Paul.
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977.
Valbin, Joseph.
Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972.
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949.
Vincent, George E. (George Edgar), 1864-1941.
Waln, Nora.
Walsh, David Ignatius, 1872-1947.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
Watson, Goodwin, 1899-1976.
Weygandt, Cornelius, 1871-1957.
Whipple, Guy Montrose, 1876-1941.
White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946.
Whiting, Lilian, 1847-1942.
Wieffenbach, Albert C.
Wilcox, Delos F. (Delos Franklin), 1873-1928.
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Wolfe, Rolland, 1902-
Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930.
Woodbridge, Homer E. (Homer Edwards), 1882-1958.
Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, 1890-1975.
Young, Ella Flagg, 1845-1918.
Zelenko, A. V.
Zueblin, Charles, 1866-1924.
Places:
Boxford (Mass.)
Chicago (Ill.)
Grand Rapids (Mich.)

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Collection

Frank Manny papers, 1890-1955
Call Number 852267 Aa 2
Total components 54
Last indexed 2024-10-17