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...Announcer Harry Von Zell of President "Hoobert Heever," as well as the interesting message: "This portion of Woman on the Run is brought to you by Phillips' Milk of Magnesia." Bloopers are the lowlife of verbal error, but spoonerisms are a different fettle of kitsch. In the early 1900s the Rev. William Archibald Spooner caused a stir at New College, Oxford, with his famous spoonerisms, most of which were either deliberate or apocryphal. But a real one-his giving out a hymn in chapel as "Kinquering Kongs Their Titles Take"-is said to have brought down the house...
...proudest family legends, remembered almost as an epic among America's 12,000 Bosnian Muslims, is the digging of Chicago's subway tunnels in the early 1900s...
...Historic Guide to Cambridge,compiled by members of the Hannah Winthrop Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the early 1900s. Intended as a walkinig guide to the city, the text focuses on individual houses and their inhabitants in Cambridge's early years. Though it is preoccupied with "Old Cambridge," the book still contains many fascinating passages. But be prepared--searching for the iteresting in the morass of architectural detail may prove tedious...
Zone of Emergence,written early in the 1900s. This book attempts to describe the immigrant population of Boston and Cambridge at the turn of the century. Though it is occasionally bigoted, late historians have drawn heavily on its descriptions of East Cambridge and Cambridgeport...
Ironically, the slide occurred at a time when teachers were getting far more training than ever before. In the early 1900s, few elementary school teachers went to college; most were trained at two-year normal schools. Now a bachelor's degree from college is a general requirement for teaching. Today's teaching incompetence reflects the lax standards in many of the education programs at the 1,150 colleges around the country that train teachers. It also reflects on colleges generally, since teachers take more than half their courses in traditional departments like English, history and mathematics...