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Social Centers, Politics, and Social Efficiency in the Progressive Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Edward W. Stevens Jr.
Edward W. Stevens Jr.*
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Educational Foundations, Ohio University
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Extract

It is in the social centers of Rochester that I should look for an answer to the question, whether in a great democratic community you were realizing the purposes of society.

Type
Progressivism Revisited
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Spring 1972 , pp. 16 - 33
Copyright
Copyright © 1972 by New York University 

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