Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yeshiva College consolidates the movement for Hebrew education which has been spreading throughout the country for the past decade. In the U. S., Talmud Torahs were formerly old, elementary schools for teaching Jewish boys (and occasionally girls) to read Hebrew as a dead language. Now U. S. Talmud Torahs teach Jewish culture, and Hebrew as a living tongue. Every city with a large Jewish population has such elementary schools supervised by bureaus of Jewish Education. In some cities Jews have demanded that their Talmud Torahs be recognized as are Catholic parochial schools. Generally they have been refused...
...this re-attainment of perspective, a movement looking toward the sane use of a good thing, the faculty of the Harvard Law School should take the lead. The students should not be left to cut through the fog alone. To ignore or belittle the problem or discourage its discussion cannot in any event suppress its open agitation much longer. The experience of the men who have to use the casebooks demands a fair and candid re-examination of the rational basis of the case system and its re-evaluation with reference to the separate subjects to which it is applied...
...South the union labor movement has made the smallest headway. Of old U. S. ancestry, the workers were individualists, long trained to stand alone. Fanatically religious (mostly "wash-foot" Baptists), they viewed organized labor as Communism, and Communism, they were told, turned people against God. They had no fear of Negro competition in the mills because they knew that the blackamoor, inefficient at best with machinery, was lulled to sleep by its rhythmic motion (soporific hypnotism). But now they are no longer "poor white trash." They have begun to taste the power of combined action, to strike for what they...
...important by-product of the Jones missionary work is the impending disintegration of India's rock-ribbed caste system. The Nationalist movement and infiltrations of Western civilization have already shaken it. But, says Dr. Jones. Christianity's recognition of individuals and their equality in the sight of God will deal the most telling blow...
...good-fellowship, it was rumored that Sir Henri, watchful of Shell,* U. S., Mexican, Colombian and particularly Venezuelan interests, had at one point seemed quite unable to reconcile himself to the A. P. I. program. After the close of the conference he announced, however, that he would give the movement his "100% co-operation." He added that he was at the meeting in an unofficial capacity as observer and A.P.I. guest...