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Chicago's mammoth public school system hires 13,000 teachers, educates 460,000 pupils at a yearly cost of $71,000,000. Few U. S. educators, however, feel any strong urge to rule it. Peppery, fox-bearded Superintendent William McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking...
Other manuscripts in the author's own handwriting include the complete original copy of the short story "Without Benefit of Clergy," and the poem "Recall." A bound volume of seven poems in Kipling's handwriting, among them "McAndrew's Hymn," "Song of the English," "Judgment of the Sea," "The Flowers," and "Hymn before Action," given to the Library by Dr. Eleanor B. Kilham, of Beverly, Mass., is also shown...
...Bill") Thompson was loudly gunning for "stool pigeons of King George" eight years ago, the best he could bring down was William Andrew Me Andrew, the city's white-bearded school superintendent whom Mayor William Dever had imported from New York. "Big Bill" flung abuse at Superintendent McAndrew, made a great hullabaloo about "pro-British" history textbooks, finally got himself elected Mayor. Superintendent McAndrew watched the Thompson antics with fine disdain, stood a farcical trial for insubordination, finally retired to East Setauket, N. Y. There he edits the "Educational Review" in School & Society...
Last week Editor McAndrew found a subject to his taste in the cover of the Sept. 14 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Artist Norman Rockwell had depicted a young mother turning her unwilling son over to a hatchet-faced, spectacled schoolmarm, switch in hand. All the characters were dressed in costumes...
...widow's son and daughter each two years of college, letting them work for the rest of the way. Readers who recommend the full college course for the son exactly balance those who recommend it for the daughter. A few are noncommittal. There is one notable dissenter: William McAndrew, the impish bearded pedagog who was forced by one-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson to retire in 1928 as Chicago's Superintendent of Schools. Wrote...