Word: briens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Hart was speaking against a bill sponsored by William H. O'Brien to bar from Massachusetts schools histories and other books alleged to contain anti-American propaganda Yesterday's hearing centred about the contention of O'Brien that certain of Professor Hart's textbooks contain uncomplimentary references to Thomas Jefferson...
...Professor Hart's history,"O'Brien charged, "dealing with Jefferson's administration. he said that the Federalists looked upon Jefferson as an atheist, a liar, and a demagogue" Professor Hart, in reply , stated that Jefferson's opponents did make such charges, and maintained that similar charges have been made in later days about Roosevelt and Wilson, the former of whom was his classmate at Harvard and a personal friend...
...stand only for the teaching of plain Americanism," O'Brien said "This bill is anti nothing. The founders of the American Republic were great men, but I am not one of those who will not concede that they had their failings just as men of today...
...opposition to O'Brien's bill were a number of members of the Boston school committee. Superintendent Jeremiath E. Burke and Edward M. sullivan I 03 testified that text books for Boston schools are carefully selected and are free from prejudice...
...During the years in which she was writing her life of Keats, she wrote many poems; in fact, a collection of these will be published this autumn; and there are her well-known Yankee dialect sketches, one of which, in spite of its verse form, Edward J. O'Brien lists among the fine short stories of the year. These sketches will some day be collected in a volume. It was during this time, too, that she perpetrated her literary hoax, a la her famous ancestor, and fooled the public for many months with A Critical Fable, published first anonymously...