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Statement of Problem As citizens living under a democratic form of government, we are proud of our system of public education. Indeed we boast of our educational progress from 1864 up to the present. But when we consider the figures on illiteracy among the soldiers during the World War on 1918-1919, our pride falls. On the basis of figures 700,00 draftees of the 24,234,021 draftees called up for military services, were found to be illiterate. Likewise, during 1941, the president of The United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, instituted a special educational program for the reduction of illiteracy among selective service registrants rejected for military service, because of inability to pass a fourth-grade examination. 1 In 1930, the last year for which comprehensive figures were available, the United States had 4,283,753 illiterates over ten years of age, or 4,3% of that population age. These illiterates came from all parts of the county and from all classes and groups. World War I and World War II helped us to realize some of the defects of our education and the need for greater effort, especially a need for a wider extension of educational opportunity to all.

 

Regarding the accounts of John Hamilton Parker, who will not be returning to the Academy.

This book provides an examination of the quantitative and qualitative factors affecting mortality in two major cities of the British Isles: London and Dublin. It covers a scale from individuals mentioned by name to aggregates of mortality data in the Bills of Mortality. Focusing on the Seventeenth Century, the book pays attention to the Great Plague of 1665, and to earlier years in which epidemics decimated populations. To the average person living in the seventeenth century, life was a series of challenges. Mortality among the young was high, and for those who survived early childhood, death in their fifties was fairly typical. Men and women might aspire to a longer life span, but even the healthiest practices were no guarantee when the overall quality of life was low. With fatal illnesses exemplified by typhoid fever on the one hand, and the arrival of yersinia pestis - plague through ports on the Mediterranean at regular intervals of several years, on the other, mortality became a foreseeable event.

This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of life and child mortality over the three centuries under study. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. They are the VICQUAL index for England