Word: bagley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numbers only 10,500 of the nation's 1,000,000 educators, but its cocky. 33-year-old executive secretary, Frederick Lovatt Redefer, was able to boast truthfully last week: "We are no longer a rebel group." Its leading critic, white-thatched Professor William Chandler Bagley of Columbia's Teachers College, concedes that this little group today wields a dominant influence in U. S. education...
Alarmed at Progressive Education's rapid spread, a handful of educational traditionalists, including Professor Bagley, last February organized a group called the Essentialists, issued a manifesto. Their indictment : the new movement has made U. S. education "effeminate," has made U. S. children inferior spellers and readers. Their proposal: more attention to discipline, systematic work, "essentials" (such as the 3 Rs). This platform raised a cheer here and there, but the Essentialists have not yet slowed up the Progressive marcb...
Recently George Horace Gallup's Institute of Public Opinion asked Professor Bagley and Teachers College's famed Emeritus Professor William Heard Kilpatrick, leading spokesman for the Progressives, to define the Progressive v. Traditional issue in a question to be put to voters. After two days' travail, each of the professors brought Dr. Gallup half of a 110-word question. Dr. Gallup threw up his hands, abandoned the idea. The question...
Josephus Daniels, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and publisher of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, and Addie Bagley Daniels celebrated their soth wedding anniversary. Said Addie Daniels: "My husband has four loves: first, newspapers, next, the Democratic Party, third, the church, and fourth...
...Bagley, who came here a little over a year ago, and now has had a chance to weld the course together, deplored "the lack of research funds." The only original work must now be done along with regular jobs in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...