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Education And The Rural Middle Class: Limington Academy, 1848-1860, Lynne Benoit-Vashon
Education And The Rural Middle Class: Limington Academy, 1848-1860, Lynne Benoit-Vashon
Maine History
The founding of academies in Maine during the early nineteenth-century expanded educational options for rural families, but academies also played an important role in the development of a rural middle class. In her study of Limington Academy, Lynne Benoit-Vachon finds that the school's by-laws, curriculum, course materials, and extra-curricular activities all worked to inculcate middle-class values of hard work, sobriety, self-improvement, and self-reliance in the Academy's young charges - training which would lead many of them into middle-class occupations beyond Limington’s borders. Benoit-Vachon, a graduate of the University of Maine, works as Education Programs Coordinator at the Currier Gallery of …
The Misses Martin’S School For Young Ladies Portland, Maine, 1803-1834, Yvonne Souliere
The Misses Martin’S School For Young Ladies Portland, Maine, 1803-1834, Yvonne Souliere
Maine History
During the Early Republic, education for the daughters of Portland's elite families usually included “ornamental” subjects such as needlework, music, and painting in addition to the “useful” subjects of reading history, arithmetic, and geography. This curriculum mirrored that of fashionable schools for young ladies in New York, Philadelphia, and, of course, Boston. The “Misses Martin's School for Young Ladies, ” opened in 1803 by the English “gentlewoman” Penelope Martin, instructed girls in “useful” and “ornamental ”subjects while also offering Portland’s best families the added cache of sending their daughters to a British-style boarding school for training as “proper” young ladies. …
Free-Speech Policy Needs Revising, Margaret Cruikshank
Free-Speech Policy Needs Revising, Margaret Cruikshank
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
My article is prompted by the display of anti-gay material by a Christian sect in the Memorial Union March 24 and 25. Over the tables were two large banners asking, "What is Wrong with Homosexuality?" and, "What is Wrong with Fornication?"
Full-Page Advertisement From The Center For Students And Community Life, Center For Students And Community Life
Full-Page Advertisement From The Center For Students And Community Life, Center For Students And Community Life
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
While the free speech and right to assemble of all is protected by law at the University of Maine, The Center for Students and Community Life does not endorse or support any statements or actions which discriminate against or harm another person or group of people, including Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transgendered people.
Media Exhibit Double Standards In Coverage, Derek Rice
Media Exhibit Double Standards In Coverage, Derek Rice
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Reaction to Green Bay Packer, Reggie White's comments against "gays, whites, Asians, Hispanics and American Indians."
Um Observes Mlk's Birthday, Paul Livingstone
Um Observes Mlk's Birthday, Paul Livingstone
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding the University of Maine Faculty Senate agreeing to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday. Also, includes the agenda for the Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebrations at the University.