1906 - Education

Education

British-controlled Egypt establishes a ministry of education with jurist Sa'd Zaghlul, 49, as minister. A son-in-law of the prime minister Mustafa Fahmi, Zaghlul will hold the post until 1910.

Former educator John Eaton dies at Washington, D.C., February 9 at age 76, having served as U.S. commissioner of education from 1870 to 1886 and been first U.S. superintendent of schools in Puerto Rico; former Harvard Law School dean Christopher C. Langdell dies at Cambridge, Mass., July 6 at age 80; former Cheltenham Ladies College headmistress Dorothea Beale dies at age 75, leaving an enormous financial legacy to the school that she headed beginning in 1858 (she has invested her money shrewdly while roaming the school grounds on her tricycle, asking passersby to push her up hills).