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17: 161:(teachers class) students had also been teaching under her authority and under her signed certificates in the US and overseas. She could have also included in the number those who attended her public preaching at the time, which she could have considered teaching outside the official classroom setting. In any case, 165:, former director and clerk of her church and later Eddy critic, gives a far shorter list in his biography on Eddy published in 1932. His list is probably limited to those students, at the college, personally taught by Eddy in an official classroom setting before she turned over the teaching to others. 90:
The official cost of classes ranged from $ 100 to $ 300, however many students were offered discounted or even free tuition, and husbands and wives who took class at the same time paid on a two-for-one basis. Clergy were offered class free of charge, indicating a desire on Eddy's part to share her
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Two medical doctors, Charles J. Eastman and Rufus King Noyes, helped Eddy set up the college, but did not stay involved with it past a few months. Eddy founded the college originally while living in Lynn, Massachusetts, but soon moved with the college to 569 and 571 Columbus Avenue in Boston where
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While Eddy stated that she taught over 4,000 students at her college, she might have included informal students or have actually been referring to the sum total of all students taught under her authority as president as the college, including the thousands of students taught when the college was
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who, with his wife, had been early students of Eddy and who occupied more positions of trust in the Christian Science Church than any other individual. Today Christian Science teachers continue to teach in many countries under the  auspices of the Christian Science Board of Education, the
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were designed to prepare teachers to start Christian Science Institutes outside of Boston to teach Christian Science; and by 1888 many such institutes existed in major cities around the United States, with more than half started by women. As time went on demand for instruction by Eddy at the
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Massachusetts Metaphysical College increased, with classes becoming larger and more frequent; however, in 1898 Eddy closed the college as she said because of "a deep-lying conviction that the next two years of her life should be given to the preparation of the revision of
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of Christian Science, or C.S.D. (sometimes listed in pamphlets as C.S. and D.C.S. respectively). Later, the C.S.D. degree was discontinued, and C.S.B. eventually came to refer to a teacher of Christian Science, while C.S. came to simply mean a class taught student.
137:. It was notable that Eddy accepted students to her college regardless of gender, as it was a rarity at the time for women to attend any type of college, especially together with men in the same classes, let alone to teach, preach, or own businesses. 87:. In addition to teaching, Bates served as the college's president for a short time before it closed. Eddy also gave lectures in Hawthorne Hall and other venues around Boston while teaching classes. 1177: 67:
founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College under a prevision of an 1874 Massachusetts state law governing the establishment of degree-granting colleges. Degrees given out included
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Upon Eddy's decease in December 1910, the By-laws of her church stipulated that the vice-president of the college would replace her as the college's president. This person was Judge
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Eddy was the president of the college and its principle teacher. Other teachers included her husband Asa G. Eddy, her adopted son Ebenezer Foster-Eddy, and her student General
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reopened as an auxiliary to her church in 1899 under the Church's Board of Education. By that time, other teachers such as Eddy's adopted son,
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In 1898, Eddy sent out invitations to roughly seventy students for another class to be taught by herself. Students in this class included
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had taught many subsequent classes. Kimball himself, for example, taught over 150 classes. Foster-Eddy, as well as General
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successor organization to the college, which was set up by Eddy in 1898 under the same charter as the college.
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Some of the notable students who attended Eddy's classes at the college between 1882 and 1889 included
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Mary Baker Eddy
theology
Christian Science
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Church
Mary Baker Eddy
Bachelor
Doctor
Erastus Newton Bates
Normal classes
Science and Health
Annie M. Knott
Laura Lathrop
Augusta Emma Stetson
Emma Curtis Hopkins
Erastus Newton Bates
Calvin A. Frye
Ebenezer Foster-Eddy
Edward A. Kimball
Septimus J. Hanna
Erastus Newton Bates
Normal
John V. Dittimore
Calvin A. Frye
Septimus J. Hanna
Sue Harper Mims
Irving C. Tomlinson
Septimus J. Hanna
"Short biographical sketch on Eddy"

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