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John Grover Beard

1888–1946 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By John Grover Beard

This business of teaching : a pharmaceutical educator tells why he is a teacher : the importance of more and better educational training and of continued scientific research

Beard, John Grover, 1888-1946 · 1921 · Druggists Circular

John Grover Beard, a teacher of pharmacy at the University of North Carolina, argues here for the value of teaching as a career and for stronger educational training and continued scientific research. Reprinted in 1921 from the April issue of The Druggists Circular in New York, the piece is a short professional statement.

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State Archives catalog: 60 collections naming John Beard State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
DigitalNC newspapers: 23 Orange County pages naming John Grover Beard DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Grave recorded at Old Chapel Hill Cemetery (white sections 1-4) Cemetery Census Listed in the county cemetery survey, grave by grave, at Cemetery Census

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