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The instinct for writing was strong in him, 

 however, and he turned to journalism, begin- 

 ning in 1876 that connection with the Atlanta 

 Constitution which lasted twenty-five years. 

 His "Uncle Remus" tales, contributed to this 

 paper, were so successful that he published 

 them in book form in 1880 as Uncle Remus: 

 His Songs and Sayings, and later followed this 

 first volume with Nights with Uncle Remus 

 and Told by Uncle Remus. He also wrote 

 Georgia jrom the Invasion of De Soto to 

 Recent Times, a life of Henry W. Grady, 

 Daddy Jake the Runaway, The Tar-Baby and 

 Other Rhymes, Aaron in the Wildwoods and 

 Tales of Home Folks. 



HARRIS, ROBERT (1849- ), a Canadian 

 painter whose best known work, The Fathers 

 of Confederation, now hangs in the Parliament 

 buildings at Ottawa. He was born in Wales, 

 but when a mere lad went to Prince Edward 

 Island, where he later attended Prince of Wales 

 College at Charlottetown. At first he taught 

 himself how to paint, but later studied in Lon- 

 don and Paris, and also traveled through Italy, 

 Belgium and Holland. In 1883 he took up his 

 residence in Montreal and became the director 

 of the Art School of the Montreal Art Associa- 

 tion. Two of his pictures which have attracted 

 most attention are The School Trustees and 

 The Fathers of Confederation, which were 

 painted under commission from the Dominion 

 government. He has also painted portraits of 

 many well-known Canadians. Harris was one 

 of the original members of the Royal Canadian 

 Academy, and was its president from 1893 to 

 1896. G.H.L. 



HARRIS, WILLIAM TORREY. (1835-1909), an 

 American educator and philosopher, the second 

 Commissioner of 

 Education of the 

 United States, 

 which post he 

 held for seven- 

 teen years. He 

 rendered notable 

 service in the 

 development of 

 education in the 

 United States by 

 reason of his in- 

 sight into educa- WILLIAM T. HARRIS 



Hnnnl nrnHlom^ For seventeen years United 

 tional problems gtates Commissioner of Edu- 



and his ability to cation. 



give clear and definite statements of the the- 

 ories of teaching. He was born in Connecticut 

 and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy 



and at Yale College. In 1867 he became super- 

 intendent of the Saint Louis public schools, 

 holding office for twenty-one years. Between 

 1889 and 1906, as United States Commissioner 

 of Education, he won wide fame as an able and 

 practical educator. 



Dr. Harris founded, in 1867, the Journal of 

 Speculative Philosophy, the first periodical of 

 its kind in the English language. He was chief 

 editor of the International Education Series 

 and of Appleton School Readers, editor of the 

 department of philosophy in Johnson's En- 

 cyclopaedia, and editor-in-chief of the 1910 

 edition of Webster's New International Dic- 

 tionary. In addition, he was the author of 

 numerous works on philosophy and education. 



HARRISBURG, PA., the state capital and the 

 county seat of Dauphin County, located south- 

 east of the geographical center of the state, 

 105 miles west and north of Philadelphia. It 

 is situated on the east bank of the Susque- 

 hanna River, and is on the Cumberland Valley, 

 the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia & Read- 

 ing railroads. The city has electric interurban 

 service. At this point the river is a mile wide 

 and is crossed by several steel bridges. In 1910 

 the population was 64,186; it was 72,015 in 

 1916, by Federal estimate. The area of the 

 city exceeds five square miles. 



Buildings and Institutions. The Capitol 

 building is surrounded by a park of fifteen 

 acres and occupies a prominent site in the city. 

 Replacing the structure which was burned in 

 1897, the new building was completed in 1907 

 at a cost of $4,000,000. It is constructed of 

 steel and brick, veneered with granite on the 

 exterior and finished on the inside in marble. 

 On its walls are mural paintings by Edwin 

 A. Abbey, John W. Alexander, Miss Violet 

 Oakley and W. B. Van Ingen, who also de- 

 signed the stained-glass windows for the House 

 Chamber. George Grey Barnard designed two 

 large groups of statuary for the building. Be- 

 fore the main entrance, in which swing splendid 

 bronze doors, is a large fountain seventy-eight 

 feet wide. Among other structures in Capitol 

 Park is the state library, containing more than 

 170,000 volumes. 



Other prominent buildings include the gov- 

 ernor's residence, the courthouse, a state arse- 

 nal, a Y. M. C. A. building, and a large Roman 

 Catholic cathedral. There are several note- 

 worthy monuments; in State Street is the 

 Dauphin County Soldiers' Monument, a shaft 

 ten feet square at the base and 110 feet high, 

 erected in honor of the soldiers of the county 



