Publications, 1910-1985.

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Publications, 1910-1985.

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Publications of the school include the following: THE LIFE, student newspaper, 1931-1943 and 1949-1979; literary magazines under various names, 1931-ca. 1983, incomplete; MINUTES, magazine for alumni, parents and friends of the school, 1972-1984; yearbooks, 1935-1984; catalogs, 1918-1985; programs for commencement exercises, 1924-1968; and a student handbook. 1978-1979. Also a history of Brooklyn Friends School entitled SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL by Edgerton North, 1942; and publications of the third and sixth grades, 1935-1936.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

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Brooklyn Friends School.

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In colonial New York, young people primarily received education through private schoolmasters and tutors, and free schooling was available to poor families through the Dutch Reformed and Catholic churches. Following the establishment of a state government, the Regents of the University of the State of New York granted charters for secondary schools in the state; the first charter, in 1768, was for Erasmus Hall Academy, located in the present-day Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. In...