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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schoolteachers, principals and superintendents are conservative. So are the textbooks they use. So are the businessmen who run the boards of education that run the schools. Yet today the U. S. has a decidedly liberal Government, voted in by the products of its conservative schools, and classroom and campus resound with students' criticisms of the social order. Flummoxed by this paradox, businessmen are getting increasingly hot under the collar about "visionary" professors. The institution they attack most often is the fountainhead of "progressive" education, Columbia University's Teachers College, which they call "The Big Red University...
Last week some 750,000 U. S. students held their fifth annual rally against war, argued over collective security v. isolation. Solemnest ceremony: At Northwestern University the editors of the Daily Northwestern planted in the campus meadow a weeping willow, to be cut down when the first of their number is killed in a future...
...University of Chicago and last week he was made head of its famed psychology department. He has been president of the American Psychological Association, his intelligence tests are used in many a U. S. school, but though his name is widely known, few people, even on the Chicago campus, have ever seen Professor Thurstone. With his dark-haired wife, Thelma, who collaborates in his research, he works constantly in his narrow office and his laboratory, hopes his three boys will all be scientists...
...present achievements are due to his deep understanding of human nature and his sincere graciousness. You must admit that a man 35 years of age who understands every type of student and wins their confidence is truly an accomplished person. ... As for his "waddling around the campus" this is in error ; President Wells is very deliberate and spirited in his walk despite his 228 pounds which he carries very well...
...Harvard branch of the Young Communist League welcome this opportunity to clarify our position on the campus. Our branch is composed solely of students at Harvard University. Our purposes are best defined in our Declaration of Principles. "The Young Communist League is a permanent university for youth. It is first and foremost an educational organization. Our aim is to educate young people to understand the world in which we live. We want them to learn how to meet the challenge of war and reaction. We want to help them discover the path to the extension of liberty and security...