Word: harte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actors who threw themselves into these extraordinary circumstances pleased a very large audience. If you've ever heard a crowd urge Bill Hart on in a race with death, you'll know how everyone in the theatre last Monday night was right behind Civic Virtue all the time. Encouraged by tremendous enthusiasm, the actors had a tendency to a declamatory utterance and self-consciousness the moment the action became tense, which revealed every dramatic absurdity in the play. How could they help it?-There was tremendous melodrama of life, and There was an audience craving raw meat: They...
...School History of the United States" by Professor A. B. Hart '80 was among the books condemned by David Hirshfield, Commissioner of Accounts of New York City, yesterday in the report he made to Mayor Hylan. The objection was made on the ground that the history was anti-American and pro-British propaganda and should therefore be barred from the public schools of New York...
Professor Hart's book was among more than a dozen histories which were mentioned by Hirshfield, who charges that these text-books were written or revised by their authors during or after the war with a view toward destroying the traditional American patriotic views of the wars between this country and Great Britain. He sees the real purpose of the writers to be aiming at an Anglo-American union based on British rather than American superiority...
...commenting specifically he declares that Professor Hart's text-book can only have a most baleful influence upon school children for it is destructive of patriotic pride and tends to deaden patriotic spirit. In reviewing the book, he quotes the following "objectionable" passages...
Besides Professor Hart's book, the following histories were condemned: "An American History" by David Saville Muzzey of Columbia University: "History of the American People" by Willis Mason West, former head of the department of history of the University of Minnesota; "A History of the United States for Schools" by Andrew C. McLaughlin, of the University of Chicago and Claude H. Van Tyne, of the University of Michigan: "Our United States" by William B. Guitteau, director of schools at Toledo; "Burke's Speech on Conciliation", edited by O. H. Ward, of the Taft School: "Short American History by Grades...