Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish children remaining in Nazi schools are used as object lessons. A teacher calls a little Jewish girl to the front of a class, asks other pupils: "What do you see in this face?" They answer obediently: "A gigantic nose, Negroid lips, inferior frizzy hair." The teacher adds: "You see, besides, a cowardly and disloyal facial expression...
...Manhattan last week one Philip Shafer, 21, began a campaign. Object: to persuade State Departments of Education to forbid teachers to pull moppets' ears. Philip Shafer, who went to Virginia elementary schools and spent one year at University of Virginia, arrived in Manhattan last year to look for a job. Failing to find permanent employment, he became convinced his big ears were the reason. Thereupon he went to Plastic Surgeon James Stotter. Dr. Stotter said that 50% of cases such as Philip Shafer's are traceable to bad habits (e. g. wearing one's hat riding...
...sake. He favors the study of classics in secondary school as excellent mind training and self-education, and rather approves of the idea that the subject should contain more drudgery than interest. At a later time in discussing the minds of students, Dr. Lowell says they do not object to strict discipline in itself, particularly if they are responsible for the result. But he does not take into consideration the fact that it is only when a student is genuinely interested that he will drill and grind at a subject, otherwise he is apt to be merely a hard-working...
...object of the felicitations was no dignitary of any "sacred brotherhood". He was Colonel Charles A. Apted, superintendent of caretakers, being hailed on his return to duty after a week's absence due to sickness. It was the first time in 18 years that the Colonel has missed a day's work through illness...
...Democratic and Republican opponents. This year, while Governor La Follette was trying to hatch a national third party to coalesce liberals against reactionaries, Wisconsin's two-time Democratic State Treasurer Robert K. Henry hatched a coalition of Wisconsin's conservatives against Governor La Follette. An object lesson to all hopeful coalitionists was the result of Wisconsin's muddled primary last week...