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AS is well known, John Dalton began his academic career at the age of twelve, by a public announcement, affixed to the door of his father's cottage, that he was prepared to impart the elements of a liberal education to the youth of Eaglesfield, of both sexes, on reasonable terms. In actual attainment he was probably not greatly in advance of his scholars—some of whom were lads of sixteen or seventeen, who offered to fight their mentor when disciplinary duty was to be done. In moral power and mental vigour he was more than a match, we may be sure, for even the most pugnacious of his pupils. These qualities doubtless secured for him the ascendency proper to his position as the principal.
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â"œJohn Dalton's Lectures and Lecture Illustrations.â” Parts i. and ii. by Prof. W. W. Haldane Gee . Part iii., by Dr. Hubert F. Coward and Dr. Artbur Harden . (Manchester: Literary and Philosophical Society, 1915.) Price 1s. 6d.
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THORPE, T. John Dalton as a Science Lecturer 1 . Nature 96, 344–345 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096344a0
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