Ella Flagg Young Teacher Soldier Patriot

Ella Flagg Young: Teacher, Soldier, Patriot.

Mrs. Young was born in Buffalo, N.Y., Jan. 15, 1845. She died in Washington, D.C., Oct 26 1918. In the [Crossed out: She lived almost seventy four years of her life so she crowsded work of such] The thousands of messages from all parts of the world called out by her death point to the unusual significance of her life. What Was there [crossed out: it] in herself and in her work to [crossed out: arrest attention] make [crossed out: the] the death [crossed out: of a school teacher] an event to arrest attention in these days of war?

Her work was wholly educational, with the social and ethical bearing that mark all truly educational work. Her experience [crossed out: in connection with schools will] took a most unusual range. She was in turn, beginning at seventeen, primary teacher, lead assistant, head of a practice school, high school lead, professor of mathematics in the Chicago Normal School, principal of the Scammon School, of the Jones School, district superintendent of schools, professor of Education in the University of Chicago, Principal at the Teachers College, and

Superintendent of the whole school system of Chicago. She [superscript: visited and] studied the schools of England, France, and Germany. She was for twentyfive years member of our own Board of Education. [Crossed out: In her fifties] Her schooling was that of a single school and normal school graduate, yet her habits of study were such that in her fifties she passed [crossed out: took] her examination [crossed out: for] and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [crossed out: and received it] from the University of Chicago. She wrote monographs of the highest value on Isolation in the School, Some Types of [superscript: illegible] Educational Theory, and Ethics in the School. She lectured far and wide on Education, Ethics, [crossed out: penology], and social topics. She represented the city at [superscript: international meeting] [crossed out: socio] penological, [crossed out: and] charitable and ethical societies. She [crossed out: had] had hoped for leisure in these last years to complete a work on The State and Its Schools, [crossed out: but the war came and so] and [crossed out: had gone] [crossed out: went] lead some to Washington to have ready access to the National Library. The war came and the nation sought her services. She was appointed by Sec'y McAdoo member of the [crossed out: Woman's] National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee and it was in the midst of a [crossed out: speech that] speaking trip through the West [superscript: in interest of the [illegible] Liberty Loan] that she was

Ella Flagg Young: Teacher, Soldier, Patriot.

Mrs. Young was born in Buffalo, N.Y., Jan. 15, 1845. She died in Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 1918. For fiftytwo of the almost seventy-four years of her life she was a teacher [superscript: in Chicago] in active service [superscript: now] in the classroom of school, college, or university, [crossed out: or] [superscript: now] [crossed out: in the office] as principal [crossed out: or superintendent] in charge of [crossed out: illegible] grammar schools [crossed out: of Chicago] or the Teachers College [crossed out: of Chicago], [crossed out: or] finally of the public schools of the city. Her resignation of the superintendency in 1914 did not cut her off from educational work. In these last four years, as indeed for many years before, she [crossed out: has] lectured on education far and wide throughout the United States. And [crossed out: since] when the war began she [crossed out: has] yielded to the desires of the national government and [crossed out: given] gave herself to the work of the war. Her death [crossed out: of], Secretary McAdoo says, was the death of a soldier at his post.

She

stricken. Secretary McAdoo says, "She died as a soldier at his post." She had given her life to the nation. 345

Such a career can come only to a personality of unusual power. First of all she was alive, vividly alive throughout. [Crossed out: She had in] A true curiousity, the first of intellectual virtues, was hers. She wanted to know the truth. She faced life and every phase of life with a desire to see them as they really are. No [inserted: sluggishness and no] craven fear made her accept ready-made, second-hand explanations or [crossed out: go round a difficulty instead of through it] succumb to a difficulty. The politicians of Chicago who hated her because she stoode against them for the welfare of the schools know that hers was a dauntless courage. A mind of singular acumen, a temper generous and magnanimous, a will not to be bent [crossed out: from a right purpose] [crossed out: heart of mother for all childhood], by any consideration of self, the heart of a mother for all childhood, the wisdom that can come [inserted: with years] only to such minds and hearts -- Mrs. Young had them all. She gave [crossed out: made] distinction to the name of teacher. Her life