Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These conditions are rarely the fault of local or state administration. North Dakota, for instance, spends twice as much percentage-wise of its annual income on education as California, and yet can afford to pay its teachers only half as much. There simply isn't enough money for education--outside of Washington. The proposed bill would deal out the federal funds to each state, giving most of it to the needy, and only a soupcon to such rich states as New York...
...only does the measure guard the sanctity of state boundaries, but it protects such local customs as segregated education (in the South), and state aid to parochial schools (wherever it exists). Any attempt to question the merit of these two traditions would, of course, cause a conflagration in Congress and probably kill the present bill forthwith. That is definitely not the object of supporters of federal aid to education. They rightly figure that if compromise will get some money into the public school system, then compromise is currently the ticket for them...
Another innovation will be a "name" band, not yet decided upon, instead of a local orchestra, to play for the formal dance on Monday, June 20. The final new wrinkle in the proceedings will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 21, when the Class will sit together to watch there Harvard-Yale-Cambridge-Oxford track meet...
...this whole affair may seem ludicrously petty, and indeed it is; but it seems to me also to typify a more-or-less prevalent attitude among some of the local police. Several times recently I have been witness to some unnecessary pushing and manhandling of students by the constabulary (in one case, they were merely watching and cheering firemen who were fighting the very minor Little Hall fire) and the relish with which it was done, and the expressions on the officers' faces, were all too reminiscent of movie gangsters...
...change in policy was announced by United World Films after they were threatened with legal Films after they were threatened with legal action. The organization stopped supplying the Liberal Union seven weeks ago after several local theaters had protested the competition...