I'm working on a project for my class involving 19th century school prayer. In relation to Maier Zunder, of course. I've really enjoying finding lots of essays and chapters in books that are way back in the Suzallo stacks or in storage. I've got a whole bunch of them (see photo, I have then stacked up alongside the desk, that's why it looks so weird). But it's great, some of them have some handy information. For example,last night I found the original court case for the Cincinnati schools which spelled out some basic issues for school prayer.
Possibly nobody has looked in these books for several years.
This topic so relevant, it could happen today, even with the same language. I hope that I can write it effectively. Including Maier Zunder's role in facing down a formidable self-appointed committee of distinguished Catholic and Protestant clergymen. He's not intimidated, he's not going to let an involved devotional exercise which distinguishes children on basis of religion be implemented in the New Haven schools in 1878. As with so many other things he did, he proceeded with great skill and purpose.
And he knew how many votes he had.
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