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...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...
...textbooks, McGuffey presented an ambitious package: reading material for children of all ages, a fine anthology of old favorites, and a stern, explicit code of morals. Before they finally faded from U.S. schools in the early 1900s, the six Eclectic Readers and the Eclectic Spelling Book (edited by Brother Alexander McGuffey) sold some 130 million copies, probably had more influence on U.S. literary tastes and moral standards than any other book except the Bible...
Last week the members of the McGuffey Society inspected the fruits of nearly half a century's search for McGuffey memorabilia. They examined the octagonal revolving desk at which the Readers were written and the statue of the master himself, surrounded by children dressed in roundabouts and pantalets. The books in the collection, largely gathered by Dean Minnich, ran to nearly 400 editions, including one Japanese translation and some Southern reprints from Reconstruction days...