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Recently George Horace Gallup's Institute of Public Opinion asked Professor Bagley and Teachers College's famed Emeritus Professor William Heard Kilpatrick, leading spokesman for the Progressives, to define the Progressive v. Traditional issue in a question to be put to voters. After two days' travail, each of the professors brought Dr. Gallup half of a 110-word question. Dr. Gallup threw up his hands, abandoned the idea. The question...
From Progressive Kilpatrick: Should our schools make central the informal learning of experience and activity work, placing much less stress on formal, systematic assignments, discipline and obedience, and instead seeking to develop pupil initiative, discipline and responsibility as well as mastery of basic subjects by encouraging pupils to show initiative and develop responsibility, with teachers, while in control, serving primarily as guides...
Leader of the group was Columbia University's top-notch Chemist Harold C. Urey, discoverer of "heavy water." Other members included Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken, Cornell's ex-President Livingston Farrand, Harvard's Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick. They proposed that U. S. colleges give sanctuary and scholarships to the students fleeing the universities of the Fascist countries "because of their belief in democracy." They would be selected by the International Student Service, chosen for ability to make "a positive contribution to American life." Dr. Urey hoped that large...
Other speakers at the dinner which 200 members are expected to attend will be John Reed Kilpatrick, former Yale All-American end and now President of the Madison Square Garden Corporation, Richard C. Harlow, Wesley E. Fesler, C. Russell Allen '38, and William J. Bingham...
...Columbia, Mo., University of Missouri Students Albert Waters and Jack Kilpatrick were having a theological discussion. Said Student Waters, "I feel a sudden urge to commune with my Maker." Student Kilpatrick handed him a revolver in fun, stuck his fingers in his ears, was terrified when Student Waters pumped a bullet through his brain...