Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, when the 12-year-old Peter said to his parent one day: "Papa, here is a picture called Immaculate Conception. What is Immaculate Conception?" the elder Pock replied smoothly: "That's the name of the lady, Peter...
...dreary pages which told of the peregrinations of Rolle and his tutor. The moving pictures had not yet been heard of, and the thought of Sabbath baseball games was still locked in the imagination of the hopelessly depraved. Reading was the universal in door sport, prescribed and supervised by parent and pulpit...
...Senators did not get much satisfaction at the White House, at least they went forth with the appearance of it. They appointed Senator George Wharton Pepper to discover a child fit for adoption and to propose a contract under which it would be entirely severed from its former parent and made the Republican Party's very...
...take the school and college to every home." He pointed out that the vast majority failed to continue their education after leaving school. He proposed a coordination of the State Departments of Education, the American Library Association and the directors of university extension courses, with the Mothers and Parent-Teachers Associations. This coalition would be under the direction of the bureau of which he is the head...
...noted. Mr. Russell began by asserting the necessity for some sort of authority in education, and then spoke briefly of he various mediums by which this authority had been and would always, presumably, be exercised. These mediums he classified as the state, the church, the schoolmaster, and the parent. He spoke of the inadequacy of each to exercise the authority which it possessed: for each, he declared, had some selfish aim outside the person educated himself...