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| Clergyman and educator, born in New York City, New York, USA. He wrote the classic Moral Dignity of the Missionary Enterprise (1823). As president of Brown University (1827–55), he greatly strengthened the faculty and curriculum, and his influential Report on the Condition of the University (1850) advocated a higher education responsive to democracy's needs. He also planned the Rhode Island public school system (1828). |
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