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...this knowledge that each had of what their lives had been about in Chicago's Near-North Side was unstructured and incomplete. Robert Jackson knew that in Chicago--as earlier in East St. Louis, in rural Louisiana, and in the CCC camps during the Depression--his dreams, despite all his efforts to realize them, had been almost universally deferred. Often in the years before leaving Chicago, he might well have felt like Robert, the character in Jean Toomer's Cane, whose head was sealed inside a diving helmet so monstrous as to plummet him irrespressibly into the crushing depths...
...could receive tailor-made correctional treatment based on a scientific analysis of his character and background. The second new program developed by the Youth Authority was the creation of forestry camps to which the more promising charges would be sent for work outdoors. Based upon the philosophy of the CCC, the forestry camps are intended to offer their workers labor that is "both productive and therapeutic" by allowing them to trade the crime-wise environment of the old reform schools for a chance to serve society by fighting fires, clearing brush, and controlling pests in California's great outdoors...
...time you read this, it may be on its way out of business. The death of a small place like Calvin Coolidge College may seem to be a good move, but, as Daniel Webster used to say, There-Are-Those-Who-Love-It. CCC is actually the undergraduate division of its next-door neighbor, the Portia Law School. Portia is an interesting place. It was founded in 1908 to provide, as you may have guessed, legal education for women. In the mid-30's the school trustees decided to admit male students and to open an undergraduate division...
...physically on the Law School. For the Law School to meet the ABA's requirements, the school is going to be forced to retain the money and land now used by the college. Since accreditation time is coming up soon, the Trustees have quietly notified the college students that CCC will be gradually phased out of existence. Those who are currently enrolled will get their degrees but no effort to enroll future classes will be made...
...death occurred in 1935, as the President set course for reelection. During his first years in office, Roosevelt had performed a remarkable patch job on a sick economy. But the closing of the banks, the departure of the gold standard, the proliferation of alphabetical emollient agencies - the AAA, the CCC, the SEC, the WPA, the NRA - had done more than restore public confidence. In Roosevelt's mind, Moley says, the relative success of these measures supported the conviction that he was a political messiah, the only man who could conduct the country to its rendezvous with destiny...