Spencerian refers to
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Spencer (surname)
Spencer (also Spenser) is a surname, representing the court title ''dispenser'', or Steward (office), steward. An early example is Robert Despenser, Robert d'Abbetot, who is listed as Robert le Dispenser ('the steward'), a tenant-in-chief of se ...
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Platt Rogers Spencer
Platt Rogers Spencer (also Platt R. Spencer) (November 7, 1800 – May 16, 1864) was the originator of Spencerian penmanship, a popular system of cursive handwriting. He was a teacher and active in the business school movement.
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(1800–64), US business school activist; in particular
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Spencerian script
Spencerian script is a handwriting 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 prio ...
, business handwriting style
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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 Colle ...
, for-profit career college in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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Spencerian Business College
Spencerian Business College is the name of various business schools established in the 19th century by Platt R. Spencer, his son Robert C. Spencer, or by Enos Spencer (whose relation to the other two Spencers is unclear), sometimes in association ...
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in '' ...
(1820–1903) social thinker; in particular
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Social Darwinism
Charles Darwin, after whom social Darwinism is named
Social Darwinism is a body of pseudoscientific theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economi ...
, application of the biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics
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Spenserian (disambiguation)
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