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RAND, Theodore Harding, Canadian educator, born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, in 1835. His father was first cousin to Dr. Silas T. Rand. The son was graduated at Acadia college in 1860, and appointed the same year to the chair of classics at the Provincial normal school, Truro, Nova Scotia He travelled in Great Britain and the United States to make a special study of common-school education, and has lectured and written on the subject. In 1864 he became superintendent of education for Nova Scotia, and in 1871 he was appointed to the same post in New Brunswick to establish the free-school system in that province. In 1883 he became professor of history and didactics in Acadia college, in 1885 he was appointed professor in the Baptist college at Toronto, and in 1886 he was given the presidency of the Baptist college at Woodstock, Ont. He received the degree of D. C. L. from Acadia college in 1874.
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