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...Stalinists, they had made their decision before the Soviet Union was attacked, having discovered that there were other things they hated more than war. Among the editors who drafted the statement were mild-mannered old Professor William Heard Kilpatrick and embattled Textbook Author Harold Ordway Rugg. Declared Kilpatrick...
...Rugg discovered Isadora Duncan, the Fabian Society, John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, the "new historians," notably Charles A. Beard. Aroused by such "frontier thinkers," Rugg decided that education needed frontier thinking too, helped launch the famed Teachers College group. For some ten years this group-Professors Rugg, William H. Kilpatrick, George S. Counts, Jesse H. NewIon, Goodwin Watson, et al.-held bimonthly discussions on "reconstructing" U. S. education, taught teachers a new jargon. In his book, Rugg proudly claims co-authorship of the phrase "child-centred school." Sample Rugg jawbreaker: "The American problem is to bring forth on this continent that...
...Both Kilpatrick and Klaw have contributed articles to leading weekly and monthly periodicals, as well as placing features in many of the country's largest newspapers...
Spencer Klaw '41, Phi Beta Kappa, Second Marshal of his class, and last year's CRIMSON president, recently was appointed assistant to columnist Carroll Kilpatrick as special Washington reporter for The News and Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina...
Impressed by the work of Klaw when he met him while a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Kilpatrick summoned the young journalist from a recently acquired position on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle to help him in the coverage of news at the nation's capital...