• A manual labor college was a type of school in the United States, primarily between 1825 and 1860, in which work, usually agricultural or mechanical, supplemented...
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    Manual labour (in Commonwealth English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machines...
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  • "The Wabash Teachers Seminary and Manual Labor College". It was later renamed Wabash College in 1851. The college was founded with the intention of providing...
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  • consortium of leading liberal arts colleges across the Midwest. Knox College was founded as "Knox Manual Labor College" by Presbyterians and Congregationalists...
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  • Jackson College was a college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, located in Columbia, Tennessee. Jackson College was founded as the Manual Labor Academy...
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  • two-year work college: Deep Springs College, California, limited to 26 students A predecessor of the work college is the manual labor college movement of...
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    The inclusion of manual labor in a college's educational program was unusual in 1917, but a number of so-called manual labor colleges had existed in the...
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    Bristol College was an Episcopal manual labor college located near Bristol, Pennsylvania. It was established on October 2, 1833, by the Episcopal Education...
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  • Baptist Manual-Labor Institute, a manual labor college. Ten years later, the Indiana General Assembly changed the school's name to Franklin College. Located...
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    George Washington Gale (category American manual labor schools)
    paying him through their labor. This successful experiment would be the start in the United States of the manual labor college. Among the students there...
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    tribal colleges and universities Association of Public and Land-grant Universities College Lands, in Ohio List of land-grant universities Manual labor college...
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  • the right to confer college and university degrees. Founded in 1831, Marion College was originally planned as a manual labor college focusing primarily...
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    Act of 1887 Land-grant university List of land-grant universities Manual labor college Smith-Lever Act of 1914 United States Department of Agriculture "Thirty-seventh...
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    minister from New York state who had formulated the concept of the manual labor college and first implemented it at the Oneida Institute near Utica, New...
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  • for a few months as a principal at a new rural agricultural and manual labor college for black people in Sparta, Georgia. Southern schools were continuing...
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    In November 1832, Wabash College was founded in Crawfordsville as "The Wabash Teachers Seminary and Manual Labor College". It was created by Presbyterian...
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  • with private employers for work-study jobs. Cooperative education Manual labor college Student financial aid http://www.ed.gov/programs/fws/index.html The...
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    Hiram Huntington Kellogg Sr. (category Knox College (Illinois))
    left for Illinois, there to found Galesburg and Knox College, originally a manual labor college, Kellogg went too, and became Knox's first president....
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  • Schools offering an industrial education in the United States such as Manual labor colleges Industrial schools in Ireland Industrial school in Great Britain...
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    worker is a person who performs manual labor or skilled trades. Blue-collar work may involve skilled or unskilled labor. The type of work may involve manufacturing...
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  • was a manual labor college, in which students were required to perform manual labor, seen as psychologically beneficial. Western Reserve College's founders...
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  • Experiential learning Intern Internship Manual labor college Practice-based professional learning Service-learning Work college Work-study This article incorporates...
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    activist who founded Marion College and served as its first president. Marion College, a Protestant manual labor college, was the first institution of...
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  • century and early 20th centuries, also known as the Progressive Era. Manual labor colleges, which emerged at the same time, were closely related institutions...
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    Oneida Institute (category American manual labor schools)
    the manual labor college, which Gale thought he had originated, although there were earlier examples,: 34–35  and Weld had proposed a manual labor program...
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  • History of Northwestern University (category History of colleges and universities in Illinois)
    Lebanon Seminary in 1828, Illinois College in 1829, Knox Manual Labor College in 1837, Blackburn College in 1837, Illinois Conference Female Academy in 1846...
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  • List of high schools in Massachusetts Normal school Common school Manual labor college Massachusetts Board of Education Francis Wayland Parker, a pioneer...
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    Brookwood Labor College (1921 to 1937) was a labor college located at 109 Cedar Road in Katonah, New York, United States. Founded as Brookwood School in...
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  • by Yates. The institution considered itself to be one of the earliest manual labor schools in the nation. The school was organized as follows: Rev. Andrew...
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    Seminary and Manual Labor College, finally acquiring the name Wabash College in 1851. Mills was recruited to the job by his old college roommate Edmund...
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