Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States come up here and ask for more and more money. Where does it come from? It comes from the pockets of your own people. We are signing the names of your children, and of children yet unborn, to pay off that 40 billion dollar debt. . . . You people out there look to Washington, but I look to the people. If the time ever comes when the American people are no longer able to operate their democratic system of government, that government will have to find a Hitler or a Mussolini to do its business...
...from Germany (one-sixth of the estimated number who are in "desperate straits") enter the U. S. this year and next. At hearings on the bill last week, Clarence E. Pickett of the American Friends Service Committee (Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite charity) drew the pitiable picture of Jewish children in Germany barred from schools and from playing in parks, spat upon in the streets, seldom able to see their hunted fathers...
...Department. But it must serve a broader purpose; it must be useful to the University as a whole. The problems faced by the 70 guinea pigs--problems of housing, of curriculum, of study habits--are representative of the entire student body. Nor are these the troubles of cantankerous "problem children," but rather of boys who are meeting their obligations with reasonable success. If the University recognizes the validity of the Study material, if it studies the every-day problems of every-day individuals, it may be able to lubricate those many points of friction constantly developing in administrative machinery...
Worst of the problem children which harass a college curriculum are the survey courses, and at Harvard they are holy terrors. Through the years they have constantly grown until today they tend, because of their own unmanageable hugeness, to fall apart into disunified sections whose only point of similarity is subject material...
...prevent the further disintegration of its gawky problem children, the University must establish some stricter rule of discipline and wipe out the injustice that exists in far too many courses. Psychologists at Harvard have worked out an excellent system of marking for large classes. Yet with pitifully few exceptions, the other large courses have failed to take advantage of their refined and scholarly research. They prefer to go their own antiquated gait, leaving their marking system open to chance and injustice...