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When Commissioner of Accounts Hirshfield urged Mayor Hylan to ban eight history textbooks from the public schools of New York City, he was acting only as would any citizen of his parts. At the order of the Mayor he had made himself an authority on American History by a year and a half's study of school children's textbooks. Next he held five public hearings at which two out of twenty-four persons defended the books in question. Mr. Hirshfield then investigated the activities of countless questionable organizations like the Carnegie Foundation and the Rhodes Scholarship Association, where each...
With such evidence before him, Commissioner Hirshfield could present Mayor Hylan with but one conclusion. There was, the former maintained, a "money super-power" which, although located in America, sought an extension of British trade, to this end it took up its stand behind all writers who were trying to bring England and America together. In order to accomplish this purpose, he argued, the propagandists tried to make the American people sorry that they had revolted, and thus to bring back this country into the British Empire. It was therefore necessary, Mr. Hirshfield explained, for them to alter the popular...
...which tradition and the historians had bestowed on them. Then, the burden of proof was on them to show that their place in our school text books was deserved. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. The mayor of New York has appointed his Commissioner of Accounts, Mr. Hirshfield, to conduct an inquiry on historical text-books. It is not now a super-idealization of our ancestors which is supposed to be a corrupt influence, but rather the interpretation of early American history from a violent pro-British or a treasonable pro-German propagandist standpoint...
...choice of sides. Princeton selected the affirmative. The Yale speakers are Harold E. Buttrick of Brooklyn, N. Y., Frank Rall, Des Moines, Ia., and Clarence E. Clough, Wilmot Flats, N. H. The Princeton speakers are W. F. Burns of Illinois, R. M. McElroy of Kentucky, and B. L. Hirshfield of Ohio. They will speak in the order named, and the first two named speakers on each side will be entitled to a rebuttal. The regular speeches will last twelve, the rebuttal five minutes...
...preliminary debates to choose Princeton's representatives in the debate with Yale were held last week. W. F. Burns '95, B. L. Hirshfield '95 and R. M. McElroy '96 were chosen. The question for debate is: "Resolved, That under the circumstances the income tax of 1894 was justifiable." Yale submitted the question and Princeton chose the affirmative. The contestants for the Lynde senior debate were also chosen last week...