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Stanford's lean, earnest Dean of Education Grayson Neikirk Kefauver was already established at Washington with 1) indefinite leave of absence from the university, 2) the backing of the rich Columbia Foundation of San Francisco, 3) the advice of No. 1 Stanfordian Herbert Hoover, and 4) the conviction that big things can be done in international education. Dean Kefauver is the quarterback of a hard-driving Stanford educational backfield (Paul Hanna, Isaac James Quillen, Paul Leonard) whose energy is well known in professional pedagogical circles and seems bound to register soon on a much wider audience...
...guard the lives of Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin...
...will soon go to Oxford to explain American civilization, has already rendered his verdict. Said Dobie: "A man can come to Texas and without interference invite all the people he wants to join the Republican Party, the Liar's Club, the Association for the Anointment of Herbert Hoover as Prophet, almost any kind of organization except one. If the Manford Law is an index of capitalism's future policy, the people had better begin digging cellars for the revolution...
...These are heydays for the Essentialists, for hardly a week passes without a dart being cast at Progressive doctrines. Now it is J. Edgar Hoover commenting on child delinquency; now it is an admiral complaining about inadequate preparation in mathematics. . . . The public is now Essentialist-minded. [Its] attitude . . . has been largely formulated in the fiery furnace of war. . . . Now there is the danger that the public will swing too far. . . Progressive education . . . proclaimed that traditional education had become a ritual ... a mold into which the enthusiasm and idealism of youth were poured with unfortunate results...
This cocky, whip-smart, 260-lb. jumbo could: 1) eat a dozen eggs at a sitting, 2) bat out a brilliant legal opinion with his eyes closed, 3) keep cocktail parties in stitches with slapstick impersonations of Herbert Hoover and Eleanor Roosevelt...