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...play with dolls in the "play corner" and other pupils busied themselves with books, Miss Campbell announced: "First grade reading. Five tots marched to the front of the room, seated themselves on a long recitation bench. There Miss Campbell gave them a Christmas story to read in an Elson-Gray reader, sent them back to their seats with work books, in which they had to cross out lines that made no sense, paste appropriate objects on a Christmas tree...
...books on "evolution" but do not use that word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography of Thomas A. Edison lest they be attacked by a Fundamentalist Baptist, Rev. J. Frank Norris, who hated and feared that atheist inventor. In Louisiana an Elson Reader was banned because of this Mother Goose couplet...
...publisher advertises, "The Pointed Tower", by Vance Thompson, IS the peak of excitement. "Maxa", by Robert Elson is another "Thriller". Read them and weep--with excitement...
...Boston team scored in every event except the 220-yard dash, and won four first places and the mile relay. Elson of Boston was a winner in the 100 and 440-yard dashes, while Regan of Pawineket also repeated, capturing both jumps. Y. M. C. A. teams from the principal cities of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New England competed in the meet...