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Retired college presidents: George Washington’s book on civility inspired a Virginia college president to write his own

During his presidency at Shenandoah, Jim Davis became intrigued by “The Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” a book George Washington, our nation’s first president, wrote when he was 14 years old. Davis saw the need to update Washington’s language with modern applications.

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