Word: pedagoguese
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Poet Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest, Helen Keller, Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, Boston's onetime Mayor Malcolm Nichols, Glass Manufacturer Raymond Pitcairn, the family of Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, the shades of the elder Henry James, the late Financial Publisher Clarence W. Barren all hold one thing...
Then why not yet in Harvard? Well, I've tried enough. I've tried to lure your professors into telling you falsehoods; I've tried to lure your administrators into oppressing you; I've tried to break down intelligence through weakness of character, and goodness through stupidity. All without success...
Mr. Dyer actually goes so far as to question the wiseness of professors in general. He even lays these particular pedagogues open to the now questionable charge of having believed in President Hoover. The only word of praise that Mr. Dyer has for the book is that it "sounds like...
Progressive educators have had another of their ambiguous brainstorms and are advocating courses in the appreciation of movies in the public schools. The pupils, it seems, will go to certain selected pictures in company with their teachers. They will then discuss them in class, when particular characters will be pointed...
The June Mercury is a lively specimen of its genus, somewhat above the ordinary in general interest. It commences with a salve in the good old Mencken style, written by H. E. Buchholz, and entitled "The Pedagogues at Armageddon," Like most of the Mercury's outbursts on the subject of...