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Show CGUFFEY READER IS ICQ YEARS OLD OXFORD, O., (HE) Representatives Representa-tives of societies dedicated to the immortalization of the famous McGuffey Readers, which years ago were the main textbooks of the nation's schools, will gather at Miami University here this summer sum-mer to celebrate the 100th anniversary anni-versary of publication of the first "Reader." ' The celebration will be held July 24 and 25 in Withrow Court of Miami, where McGuffey, as a teacher there from 1826 to 1836, wrote the readers, Dr. Harvey C. Minnich, curator of Miami's McGuffey Museum, announced. McGuffey societies, scattered from coast to coast, will send delegates. dele-gates. The societies have pledged themselves to raise $10,000 needed to complete the Lorado Taft McGuffey Mc-Guffey Memorial, to be erected in honor of the educator on the .Miami campus. The university now boasts one of the largest and most complete collections of McGuffey's Readers being second only to that of the .Detroit Public Library. Henry Ford has the third largest. The Miami collection includes the only copy of the McGuffey Primer. |