`` we've got Father and Mother and each other '' said Beth on the first page of Louisa Alcott's Little Women ; ;

The result was the Concord School of Philosophy and Literature, which held its first session in 1879 in Alcott's study in the Orchard House.

As he was bedridden at the end of his life, Alcott's daughter Louisa May came to visit him at Louisburg on March 1, 1888.

Attendance at Alcott's school was falling.

Some stories have been written with a proverb overtly as an opening, such as " A stitch in time saves nine " at the beginning of " Kitty's Class Day ", one of Louisa May Alcott's Proverb Stories.

In Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, whose protagonist Jo reads it at the outset of the novel, and tries to follow the good example of Bunyan's Christian.

In 1836, Fuller was given a job teaching at Bronson Alcott's Temple School in Boston, where she remained for a year.

" Gregory S. Jackson argued that Alcott's use of realism belongs to the American Protestant pedagogical tradition that includes a range of religious literary traditions with which Alcott was familiar.

As usual, Alcott's methods were controversial ; a former student later referred to him as " the most eccentric man who ever took on himself to train and form the youthful mind.

The Concord School of Philosophy, which closed following Alcott's death in 1888, was reopened almost 90 years later in the 1970s.

Alcott's published books, all from late in his life, include Tablets ( 1868 ), Concord Days ( 1872 ), New Connecticut ( 1881 ), and Sonnets and Canzonets ( 1882 ).

Examples include Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall ; Louisa May Alcott's Little Women ; and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette ( 1797 ).

So we must first analyze our present institutions with respect to the effect of each on man's major needs.

The critics' campaign finally inspired the first major U.S. exhibit of Schiele's works.

For this first development the supplier signing the lease is a major oil company but in turn the deal is being transferred for operation to its local fueloil distributor.

Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.

This saved for state adjudication, in the first instance, the two major areas where federal injunctions had been most obnoxious, but other areas remained vulnerable.

The first major change was that of providing wholewheat bread instead of white bread.

Hardly a window has been broken since Dunbar first was opened ( and vandalism in schools is a major problem in many slum areas ).

Al Smith's 340-blast over left in the fourth -- his fourth homer of the campaign -- tied the score and Carreon's first major league home run in the fifth put the Sox back in front.

The meeting will, however, afford a timely and convenient opportunity for the first personal contact between them and a general exchange of views on the major issues which affect the relationships between the two countries ''.

Both have brilliant speed: Mantle was timed from home plate ( batting left-handed ) to first base in 3.1 seconds, faster than any other major leaguer ; ;

Significantly, the initiation and leadership of a major proportion of the reform movements, especially those in the first half of the nineteenth century, came from men and women of New England birth or parentage and from either Trinitarian or Unitarian Congregationalism.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

It took Immanuel Kant 25 years to write one of the first major treatises on anthropology, his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View.

The first edition of the standard was published during 1963, a major revision during 1967, and the most recent update during 1986.

The first major groups of amphibians developed in the Devonian period from lobe-finned fish similar to the modern coelacanth and lungfish, which had evolved multi-jointed leg-like fins with digits that enabled them to crawl along the sea bottom.

The first major expression of this were the Lambeth Conferences of the communion's bishops, first convened by Archbishop of Canterbury Charles Longley in 1867.

It has two main features on which its distinction as a major contribution to Avicennan studies may be said to rest: the first is its clarity and readability ; the second is the comparative approach adopted by the author [...].

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

The conflict between Arianism and Trinitarian beliefs was the first major doctrinal confrontation in the Church after the legalization of Christianity by the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Licinius.

As the first major intra-Christian conflict after Christianity's legalization, the struggle between Nicenes and Arians left a deep impression on the institutional memory of Nicene churches.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

Their second title, and the first to be received through a championship game, came in, two decades before the first Super Bowl game was played.

In their first five seasons of existence, the Diamondbacks won three division titles ( 1999, 2001, 2002 ) a National League pennant ( 2001 ) and a World Series championship ( 2001 ).

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.

Ajax achieved their first Eredivisie championship in 1957 and again in 1960.

In 1977, Ajax won their first domestic championship since 1973.

AZ's second championship was the first Eredivisie title in 28 years, and the first time since then that the Eredivisie was won by a team other than the " big three " ( Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord ).

The NABBP was the first organization to govern the sport and to establish a championship.

For several years, the National League and American Association champions met in a postseason championship series — the first attempt at a World Series.

San Francisco won its first championship in 1981, just two years after winning two games.

United won the League championship but were denied the 20th century's first " double " when they controversially lost the 1957 FA Cup final to Aston Villa.

He won his first championship in in the Ground effects BT49-Ford, and became the first to win a drivers ' championship with a turbocharged car in.

Gurney took the marque's first two wins in the world championship, at the 1964 French and Mexican Grands Prix.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

Cleveland won the league championship in its first NFL season, followed by two more in 1954 and 1955.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.