Word: kleeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal was attacked and ridiculed as soon as it appeared. "Bargain-basement education . . . smacks of Alice in Wonderland . . . educational charlatanism," growled Dr. Edwin R. Van Kleeck, New York's assistant commissioner of Instructional Supervision. The speed-up "would make more headaches than it would cure," warned Dean Herbert Hawkes of Columbia. Students "would be coming into the colleges with a year less maturity, and the difficulties.of adjustments would be even more serious than they...
...activity. But notable at New Haven were the skill and spokesmanship of many an able Episcopal laywoman. Chief speech at the annual C. L. I. D. banquet was given by Vida Button Scudder, emeritus professor of English at Wellesley. Principal speaker at the opening session was Director Mary van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation's Department of Industrial Studies. Said she: "What does Christianity require of Britain and the United States in their jointly assumed responsibility for world affairs today? The answer may at once be given in simplest terms, Love thy Neighbor as thyself. . . . We are Christians...