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Name
  
Isaac Sharpless


Education
  
Harvard University

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Died
  
1920, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States

Books
  
The Quakers In The Amer, A Quaker Experiment in Govern, The Quakers in the Revol, Astronomy for schools and gene, Political leaders of provincial

Isaac Sharpless, Sc.D., LL.D., L.H.D. (1848–1920) was an American educator, born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard in 1873 and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from there in 1915. He was employed at Haverford College for many years, becoming professor in 1879, dean in 1884, and president in 1887.

Author

Sharpless authored the following:

  • Astronomy for Schools and General Readers (1882; fifth edition, revised, 1912)
  • English Education in the Elementary and Secondary Schools, in the "International Education Series" (1892)
  • A Quaker Experiment in Government (1898)
  • Two Centuries of Pennsylvania History (1900)
  • Quakerism and Politics (1905)
  • The American College (1915)

    • References

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