Word: newlon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia when 76-year-old Nicholas Murray Butler retires. Irked by businessmen's reference to his college as "The Big Red University," he last year retired liberal, 65-year-old Professor William Heard Kilpatrick. Since then Teachers College leftists, notably Professors George Sylvester Counts and Jesse H. Newlon, have held their tongues...
...pedagogs are deeply troubled. Last year's N. E. A. convention dropped the stock squabble to unite on one proposition: the Federal Government should subsidize needy schools. Last week that issue was still near the top of the 12,000 teacherish minds at Denver. Keynoted Professor Jesse Homer Newlon of Teachers College, Columbia...
Such harmonious grumbling was not to last. Smart, left-wing Columbia professors were on hand to steer the convention head-on into a hotter issue: Academic Freedom. Keynoter Newlon and his colleagues made delegates feel that the abstract cause of Academic Freedom was their own concrete cause against arbitrary superintendents, corrupt school boards. Professor John Kelley Norton tickled fancies with a proposal that the nation's teachers unite with parents and workingmen of goodwill to hold the national balance of political power. In that Coughlinesque idea the scary Denver Post professed to see the birth of "the Pedagogic Party...
From the left, Professor Jesse Homer Newlon of Teachers' College threw the issue to the convention: "We cannot and we will not remain neutral in the struggle of social forces going on in this country...
...superintendents took no direct notice last week. But they were girded to fight, most of them agreeing, however reluctantly, with a Wisconsin superintendent's statement: "The teaching profession as a whole has been too smug in it? reliance upon universal desire for good schools." Said Dr. Jesse Homer Newlon of Manhattan's Lincoln School: "It is time to smash the tradition that the teacher must be neutral in political matters. . . . They must participate actively as an organized group [more than 1% of the U. S. electorate] in the discussion and solution of many social problems...