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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Were he to descend a few academic steps, the President might find what he is seeking. For among the eight American Civilization Counsellors, there is one who has survived last year's shakeup. Experienced, willing, and free from the worries and obligations attendant upon a full professorship, Henry N. Smith, Counsellor in the Union, seems an excellent choice for executive head of the American Civilization Plan. The President would do well to waive the question of rank, and appoint this logical candidate. The Plan perished once from administrative neglect; it is not long likely to display the tenacity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEADLESS BUT HOPING | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...mother (Gladys George) after she left Duke for nonpayment of rent, has brought David up sheltered from the realities of life. A freshman at Stafford, David begins to sample the realities when, egged on by moony old Professor Dopey Daniels (Roland Young), he visits Father No.1, is shocked to find that life for Duke is mostly beer and victuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...doctor the schools' failings, Survey Graphic'?, experts proposed many remedies, from Federal financial aid to more science in education. Most practical was Columbia University's Professor Karl N. Llewellyn, who suggested that educators find mass-production formulas that even mediocre teachers can use. Sample formula (to promote healthy skepticism): Let pupils be taught from the kindergarten to preface every "fact" thus: "My geography book says that Albany is the capital of New York"; "Mr. Smithers says that stealing is naughty"; "The Bugle says Japan is a menace"; "Candidate Loud says that Senator Louder is a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Challenge | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

University of Texas' Homer Price Rainey: "We cannot escape the fact that we belong to the culture pattern of Western Europe which is represented by England and France. Hence if these countries should face defeat, we would find it difficult to remain out of the struggle. . . . We may ... be on the verge of tragic days for our young people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unique Burden | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...deleterious, which the ADAM may have on the average person's attitude towards the art has crawled out of the precarious position it occupied during the nineteenth century, a position between the pit of conservative morality and the pendulum of progressive realism, certain fundamental questions are still unanswered. We find ourselves still confronted with the time-worn, but nevertheless basic, problems. Shall we accept brutal, brazen phases of the world as art on a par with the more pleasant and morally pure aspects of our existence? Is there any difference between the moral and the immoral, the good...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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