Word: maccracken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contempt of Congress is a criminal offense, and is usually punished as such. In 1929 Oilman Harry F. Sinclair was sent to jail for three months* for refusing to answer a Congressional Committee's questions on his company's dealings. In 1935 William P. MacCracken Jr., secretary of the American Bar Association and a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, was put behind bars for the destruction of subpoenaed papers...
...most prestigious of colleges is the American University of Beirut, largest U.S. educational center abroad. A.U.B.'s grads include a recent Syrian Prime Minister (now U.N. delegate), the Lebanese Minister to the U.S. Among former Beirut teachers: Vassar's President Emeritus Henry Noble MacCracken...
Looking for a successor to retiring President Henry Nobel MacCracken, Vassar College set out to get "the best possible person, man or woman." Last week Vassar found what it was looking for, picked the first woman president in its 85 years. The choice was Cornell's Home Economics Dean Sarah Gibson Blanding...
Still, even Dr. MacCracken thinks there's something wrong with U.S. education. He blames the teachers. "Wherever there is poor teaching and mediocre living," he wrote, ". . . you will find the professors clamoring for compulsion to make the students come back to their courses. Strange as it may seem, students recognize good teaching when they see it. At Vassar, the most popular course in the college is voted the hardest year after year...
...real problem is not how to regulate the student some more, but how to set him free, how to give him the four freedoms of college: freedom from family, freedom from faculty, freedom from administration and freedom from himself.' The success of education, added Dr MacCracken, depends on the "consent, interest, participation, and integrity" of the educated...