Word: mcguffey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the 20th century, the sternly preachy anthologies called McGuffey's Eclectic Readers faded out of the American classroom. Ever since, many elementary-school teachers have been stumped by the problem of instructing pupils in moral themes without committing the modern sin of sermonizing...
...problem now appears solved by a set of morals-based readers called the Golden Rule Series, published by the American Book Co. of New York City. Subtitle of the series: the Modern McGuffey Readers. Wary of its competitors, American is keeping mum about its total sales. But, says contented President Grant Houston Brown: "We haven't had such an immediate acceptance in 30 years...
...Doctorate of Philosophy should be crassly unaware of the meanest elements of our cultural heritage, but it is alarming that these new Piltdown Men . . . should claim the right to unsupervised authority over us all. These people don't need authority. They need a course in elementary logic, a McGuffey's Reader and perhaps a Gideon Bible...
...Boston theatre is subjected to scrutiny which could make plays replace McGuffey's Reader in the first grade," Elinor Hughes, drama critic of the Boston Herald, told the Law School Forum last night...
...William Holmes McGuffey...