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Definition of McGuffey
1. Noun. United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873).
Lexicographical Neighbors of McGuffey
Literary usage of McGuffey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Educational History of Ohio: A History of Its Progress Since the Formation by James Jesse Burns (1905)
"JD Cox, in a Memorial read before the Trustees of the Cincinnati College says of Mr.
McGuffey as a lawyer: "His tastes led him to seek the quieter walks of ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"inquired McGuffey. "We're invited to a big feed with the king of ... McGuffey stood
at the rail and jeered them, for his democratic soul could take no ..."
3. The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal of Education by Ohio State Teachers Association (1896)
"WG Williams Delaware, O. ALEXANDER HAMILTON McGUFFEY. By the recent death of
Alexander Hamilton McGuffey, Cincinnati has lost one of her staunchest citizens ..."
4. Personal Memories, Social, Political, and Literary with Sketches of Many by Edward Deering Mansfield (1879)
"... Quincy Adams—Abolition—Right of Petition—Bank of the United States—Removal of
the Deposits—Storer and Lytle—Cincinnati College—Dr. McGuffey—Charles ..."
5. Transactions of the ... Annual Meeting of the Western Literary Institute edited by David L. Talbott (1839)
"President McGuFFEY offered the following : Resolved, That Sunday School instruction
is so analagous to a right system of instruction in Common Schools, ..."
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