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...helped launch the famed Teachers College group. For some ten years this group-Professors Rugg, William H. Kilpatrick, George S. Counts, Jesse H. NewIon, Goodwin Watson, et al.-held bimonthly discussions on "reconstructing" U. S. education, taught teachers a new jargon. In his book, Rugg proudly claims co-authorship of the phrase "child-centred school." Sample Rugg jawbreaker: "The American problem is to bring forth on this continent that civilization of economic abundance, democratic behavior and integrity of expression which is now potentially available." Aided by 16 researchers, Harold Rugg has turned out 20 social-study texts under the title...
...even the standards of the yellow and sensational press were about exceeded by it. In spite of a seeming wide popularity of all the ideas ascribed to me by Crimson and by press and radio, they are the invention and ideas of those who have written them. The authorship belongs to them, not to me. I stand firmly for the ideas I expressed, but I do not have a slightest claim of authorship for the ideas which are, in my opinion, silly, stupid, obscene, and moronish. P. A. Sorokin...
...Kierkegaard's works, the Rev. Walter Lowrie has translated better than a dozen. Next to appear will be Concluding Postscript, which he calls "the keystone of S. K.'s whole authorship." Held up in England by war is Either /Or, K's first, easiest work...
...author of Guilty Men ("Cato") shrouds himself, for reasons which nobody seems to know, in a thick British fog. He has been guessed to be Winston Church ill's son Randolph, H. G. Wells, Lord Beaverbrook, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Alfred Duff Cooper. All flatly deny authorship. At any rate Guilty Men is terse, biting, sometimes eloquent, gives every appear ance of careful, responsible judgment. The charges are not new. But the total indictment is terrible. Guilty Men is headed by a cast sheet of villains. Among them: Ramsay MacDonald, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Neville Chamberlain, Sir John Simon...
...Confucian scholar as a satire on the private life of a corrupt official. The official received a presentation copy, fell dead as he finished the last of its 1,600 subtly poisoned pages. No believer in such legend, Arthur Waley, expert on Chinese literature, says the novel's authorship is doubtful, like that of China's other famed novels. He traces first mention of it to a book published around 1600, wherein Chin P'ing Mei is highly commended as an aid to companionable drinking. Banned some 100 years after publication by a puritanical Manchu dynasty...