James Phinney Munroe
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Clan Munro
-Origins:The main traditional origin of the clan is that the Munros came from Ireland and settled in Scotland in the 11th century and that they fought as mercenary soldiers under the Earl of Ross who defeated Viking invaders in Rosshire...
. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
and graduated in 1888, although remained active in the affairs of the school. He published a number of mostly scholarly works. He was the father-in-law of Frederic Lansing Day
Frederic Lansing Day
Frederic Lansing Day was an American playwright b. 1886 in Boston, Massachusetts d. 1982 in New Hampshire. Frederic Day, the son of Henry Brown Day, the founder of the Day Trust Company, was a Socialist and Unitarian. He graduated from Yale in 1908 and married Katharine Munroe whom he later...
who married his daughter Katharine. Munroe, who lived in Lexington, Massachusetts
Lexington, Massachusetts
Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,399 at the 2010 census. This town is famous for being the site of the first shot of the American Revolution, in the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775.- History :...
, was a president of the Lexington Historical Society and Treasurer and President of the Munroe Felt and Paper Company. He edited the second edition of Charles Hudson
Charles Hudson (Massachusetts)
Charles Hudson was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Hudson was born in Marlborough on November 14, 1795. He attended the common schools and later an academy, taught school, served in the War of 1812 and studied theology...
's "History of Lexington."
-The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist (pg. 386)
"J.P Munroe... was a Boston businessman, active in local affairs and in the life of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he had served as Secretary of the Faculty 1882-9 under Walker's presidency. Munroe edited Walkers Discussions in Education (Holt, NY, 1899) as well as writing several books."
-Taylored Citizenship: State Institutions and Subjectivity (pg. 100)
"James Phinney Munroe, president of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, chairman of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, chairman of the Committee on Education of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and secretary of the Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, began his 1912 book New Demands in Education...
Books
- "A Sketch of the Munro Clan: Also of William Munro Who Deported From ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, Settled in Lexington, MassachusettsLexington, MassachusettsLexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,399 at the 2010 census. This town is famous for being the site of the first shot of the American Revolution, in the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775.- History :...
and Some of His Posterity." 1900. James Munroe was a direct descendant of William Munroe. - "The Destruction of the Convent at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1834" about the Ursuline Convent RiotsUrsuline Convent RiotsThe Ursuline Convent Riots were riots that occurred on August 11 and August 12, 1834 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, near Boston in what is now Somerville, Massachusetts. During the riot, a convent of Roman Catholic Ursuline nuns was burned down by a Protestant mob...
. 1901. - "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology" (illustrated). 1902.
- "William Barton RogersWilliam Barton RogersWilliam Barton Rogers was a geologist, physicist and educator. He is best known for setting down the founding principles for, advocating for, and finally obtaining the incorporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1861...
: Founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" 1904. - "The Educational Ideal: An Outline of Its Growth in Modern Times" (A part of Heath's Pedagogical Library). 1911.
- "New Demands in Education" . 1912.
- "The Business Man and the High-School Graduate". 1913.
- "The New England Conscience". 1915.
- "The War's Crippled: How They May Be Made Assets Both to Themselves and to Society". 1918.
- "The Advantages of National Auspices of Re-Education". 1918.
- "The Human Factor of Education". 1921. Reprinted in 2009 by BiblioBazaarBiblioBazaarBiblioBazaar is, with Nabu Press, an imprint of the historical reprints publisher BiblioLife which is a based in Charleston, South Carolina and owned by BiblioLabs LLC....
. - "A Life of Francis Amasa WalkerFrancis Amasa WalkerFrancis Amasa Walker was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and military officer in the Union Army. Walker was born into a prominent Boston family, the son of the economist and politician Amasa Walker, and he graduated from Amherst College at the age...
". 1923.
External links
- Books of James Phinney Munroe
- Excerpt from "Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America"
- Excerpts from "Lexington: From Liberty's Birthplace to Progressive Suburb"
- Excerpt from "The Correspondence of[Alfred Marshall, Economist"
- Excerpt from "Taylored Citizenship: State Institutions and Subjectivity"