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According to the Oregon Quarterly, "New Research on Student Spirituality," Oregon Quarterly, Autumn 2004, p. 35.

Higher education in the 19th century was largely the privilege of classical education for a privileged few. While the sons of farmers in New England, such as a Mary Baker's brother Albert, could make their own way to college through intellectual merit and enterprise—Albert taught in a primary school to earn college tuition money See Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966), p.

LOOKING BACK A book for the schools Six weeks after her book Science and Health was published in 1875, Mary Baker Eddy noted, "I have just received from Harvard University a polite card of thanks for the Book I gave the library of that College. "  L12666, Mary Baker Eddy to Helen M.

  SHARON WILSON'S HUSBAND, BOB , seemed contrite as he looked up at her from his hospital bed. Ms.

When I found myself coming up with different scenarios that God might use to help me, I knew I was in trouble. I'd been worried since the end of the school year, when I learned that because of low enrollment for the kindergarten class I taught, I might not be needed in the fall.

I'd begun to scour the streets for coins. Even when I was riding my bicycle, I would stop to pick up pennies or the occasional nickel or dime.

I started my business on a wing and a prayer. All I knew was that I wanted to be my own boss.

I'll never forget my first camera—a Kodak point-and-shoot "Brownie. " After slipping in a roll of black and white negatives, I couldn't wait to try it out.

In the room a candle flickers, marking the space as sacred. One woman's office now becomes a spiritual sanctuary.

"One way I've heard the Library described is as an ecotone," says Stephen Danzansky, Chief Executive Officer of The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity. No, an ecotone isn't an ecology-oriented music ensemble.