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...picturesque name and a unique university: St. Francis Xavier. To St. F.X., as Bluenoses call it, educators come from all over the world. Last week Jesuit Father Ralph O'Neill, of Philadelphia, arrived. Like the others, he had come to study the Antigonish Movement, to see how adult and cooperative education had bettered the lot of Maritime fishermen and farmers. He wanted to do similar work among the Filipinos...
Established as a cooperative council, the new organization will present adaptations of college lectures over local stations, which have all endorsed the plan. Officials of the Lowell Institute consider the move a pioneer step in adult education, which "makes available to listeners of the New England area the unequalled cultural resources of its college and university members...
...police cruised nightly through urban "locations" (segregated residential quarters), routing all Negroes without poll-tax receipts. The penalty: jail, cuts with a thin bamboo cane-or a job in the mines. By 1938 the rural Europeans, who form 10% of the population, held 88% of the land. All adult male natives must carry passes-some of them as many as ten passes at a time...
...real trouble with radio ... is there isn't any trouble at all. The trouble is all with the listeners. Having been sickened on the pap of the '30s, they have suddenly grown up and are demanding adult material...
Last week, at experimental centers in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C., 30 literacy classes along Army lines began for 500 of the 3,000,000 Negroes who comprise nearly one third of U.S. adult illiterates. The 500 are a "pilot group"; the U.S. Office of Education hopes to wipe out all adult illiteracy. Just as the Army primers had talked about jeeps and girls rather than cats and mice, the textbooks for the Negroes were tailored to fit the special interests of a community, e.g., cottonfields. The Army found that exercises like "see the dog run" only bored adults...