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Excerpts: "In the year of my advent upon these scenes, the annus mirabilis 1880, they took but $78,094,687 for flogging the elements into 15,065,767 pupils, which worked out to but little more than $5 per capita per annum. ... In 1914. the year of fate, there were...
After a lot more such Menckenese came the recommendation: that because free education-for-all has failed completely and miserably, the "bogus experts" be thrown out and the pedagogues be restored to their proper function of teaching only the elements, only the three R's. Can it be done...
Last Friday the baseball game showed up the human side of those austere and dignified members of the faculty better than Mr. Hoover's new secretary employed to "humanize him." Students flocked to see not simply the unbending official, but his personality behind the mask of officialdom. They went to...
The volume, bound in red and containing a dedication and preface done in the best Lampoon tradition, is blessed with a double title, "Mondays at 9" or "Pedagogues on Parade." The sketches of the aforementioned pedagogues, which have become familiarized to thousands of Lampoon readers in their appearance on the...
And yet the two extremes are each modifying the other. Harvard is not so medieval as the Tribune editor would have us think and the great Western universities, with their curricula covering world knowledge and world experimentation, are not dissipating their efforts to the extent that New England pedagogues imagine...