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Spencerian refers to * the adjective of
Spencer (surname) Spencer (also Spenser) is a surname, representing the court title ''dispenser'', or steward. An early example is Robert d'Abbetot, who is listed as Robert le Dispenser ('the steward'), a tenant-in-chief of several counties, in the Domesday B ...
, in particular ** Platt Rogers Spencer (1800–64), US business school activist; in particular ***
Spencerian script Spencerian script is a script style based on Copperplate script that was used in the United States from approximately 1850 to 1925, and was considered the American ''de facto'' standard writing style for business correspondence prior to the wid ...
, business handwriting style ***
Spencerian College Spencerian College was a private, for-profit career college in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky. It was founded in 1892 as the Spencerian Commercial School, a private for-profit business school, by Enos Spencer. In June 2018, Spencerian Coll ...
, for-profit career college in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, USA *** Spencerian Business College, various **
Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, psychologist, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist famous for his hypothesis of social Darwinism. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest ...
(1820–1903) social thinker; in particular ***
Social Darwinism Social Darwinism refers to various theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics, and which were largely defined by scholars in W ...
, application of the biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics


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Spenserian (disambiguation) Spenserian may refer to *the adjective of Spenser, in particular **Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for ''The Faerie Queene'', an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the ...
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