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Excerpts featured prominently in elocution books like “The Columbian Orator” and “The National Orator” and in the advanced McGuffey’s readers.

But many of these programs are little more than computerized rehashes of the old classroom flash cards that go back to the days of McGuffey's readers.

The campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is usually known as the place where McGuffey's Readers were launched, and where Red Blaik and Ara Parseghian got their starts in football.

McGuffey's Readers marked a milestone in U.S. education.

Most school boards, even if they wanted McGuffey's Readers, would have supposed them out of print; the Twin Lakes men discovered that American Book Co. began to reprint them in the '20s to the order of Henry Ford, who regarded them as admirable curios �with their antiquated typography and illustrations�to send to his friends.