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245 1 0 _aThe Life and Work of Sarah Jane Farmer, 1847-1916
264 0 _aWaterloo, ON :
_bUniversity of Waterloo
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520 3 _aSarah Jane Farmer untertood a series of educational projects durng the 1880-1900 period: the Eliot Public Library, the Greenacre Institute and the Monsalvat School for the Comparative Study of Religion. Two circumstances added considerable importance to her work: (1) her pioneering contributions to the adult education movement ; (2) timing of her programs, occurring as they did during a watershed period in which many American thinkers tried to draw their countrymen into the process of social change.
690 _aBIOGRAPHY
700 1 _aMartin, James Douglas
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