biography
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Bestor, Arthur Eugene
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| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1944)
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| biography:
| Educator, born in Dixon, Illinois, USA. He studied at the University of Chicago (1901), then taught history and political science at Franklin College (Indiana) and the University of Chicago. Long interested in adult education, from 1905 he was active in the Chatauqua movement, becoming director of the Chatauqua Institution (1907–15) then its president (1915–44). He developed its popular home reading courses, gained degree credits for some of its courses, and after World War 1 focused on the teacher-training programmes and cultural events with which Chatauqua would become most closely identified. |
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