Archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools records, 1890-1932 (MC 92)
...R. McDevitt, was appointed in 1899. McDevitt advocated for the creation of new high schools with practical curricula to attract Catholic families away from public high schools, and systemized the supervision of each school. Operated on a citywide basis, these schools would act to upgrade and standardize the curriculum and
Friendly and Adopted Sons
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Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items
...alvanic battery so as to vary the intensity of its effect, and in the construction of insulated conductors applied to the same for adapting it to medical purposes.” The instrument, which Coad and others touted as one that helped cure various diseases, garnered a good deal of attention within the