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Established 1S75 Incorporated, Massachusetts, 1892 



Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 



Dr. Henry Marcus Leipziger. 



This great lecturer and educator died 

 on December ist after a long life handi- 

 capped by much ill health and a frail 

 physique ; but in spite of these obsta- 

 cles he accomplished an almost incred- 

 ible amount of work, especially in con- 

 nection with adult education. He was 

 Supervisor of the great University of 

 the People of New York City, that free 

 lecture course which has grown to 

 gigantic proportions, the attendance be- 

 ing in the millions and the staff includ- 

 ing several hundred lecturers. Dr. 

 Leipziger, by his peculiar enthusiasm 

 and ability, was able to direct the com- 

 plicated machinery of the institution so 

 skillfully that not a flaw in the man- 

 agement was discernible. The whole 

 course has become unqualifiedly suc- 

 cessful and the admiration of cities and 

 of educators everywhere. This great 

 work has the special and hearty appro- 

 val of The Agassiz Association, which 

 believes that education is not for life 

 but is life itself. The work of The AA 

 has always been directed, not so that a 

 child may complete an education but 

 that he may begin an education that 

 shall continue through life. The mis- 

 taken belief that nature study is for 

 children only has had the approval of 

 The AA only so far as it prepares the 

 child for the employment of the full 

 powers of the adult so that he may 

 then study this great and wonderful 

 world. Dr. Leipziger had a similar 

 opinion in regard to all education. He 

 believed that the public schools should 

 be merely inciters, and that thev fail 

 in their mission if they convey the im- 

 pression that education may be com- 

 pleted within the days of childhood. 

 More than any other man in all the 

 world he carried education into the 

 life of the adult. Some of the most de- 

 voted pupils of the great New York 



course were elderly men and women. 

 These lectures were given in true uni- 

 versity style, and children, unaccom- 

 panied by adults, were not admitted. 

 But just at present another phase of 



DR. LEIPZIGER DIED DECEMBER 



1917. 



Dr. Leipziger's great work should be 

 emphasized. He was a masterly teach- 

 er of patriotism. He was perhaps more 

 successful than any other man in 

 America in educating the foreigner and 

 in introducing him to American ideals. 

 He gathered members of all national- 

 ities in his numerous auditoriums and 

 there instructed them in the principles 

 of Americanism. His influence among 

 the great medley of foreigners in cos- 

 mopolitan New York City was beyond 

 all estimate. His life, handicapped by 

 the weakness of his physique, and ob- 

 structed by people who did not under- 

 stand and therefore did not agree with 



