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Smug Group. In his campus office, President Darden, 57, a broad-shouldered, good-humored man, made no attempt to duck the basic issues. Said he: "There is a deep-seated cleavage over my purpose to relate the university to the public-school system of the state. It disturbs the smug group that wants to maintain a self-satisfied and narrow view of the university. They want to make it a sort of Princeton in the absurd social sense in which-Princeton is pictured sometimes-a sort of F. Scott Fitzgerald Princeton...
...years ago the Supreme Court tossed a judicial bomb into many a U.S. schoolroom when it decided that it was unconstitutional for James Terry McCollum and his classmates in Champaign, Ill. to be exposed to religious instruction on public-school property (TIME, March 22, 1948). But the individualists of Vermont would not let some Washington lawyers tell them how to educate their children; the state board of education issued a routine notice of the decision, and nobody paid much attention...
...ever the nation gets a chance to hear he voice of the U.S. public-school teacher, it seldom hears it so clearly as when the powerful (561,708 members) National Education Association holds its annual convention. Last week, as some 20,000 teachers and administrators wound up their N.E.A. convention business in Manhattan, they did so with the well-earned satisfaction of having given the country a piece of their mind...
...segregation, argued the committee, has nothing really to do with race at all. It is merely a way of promoting the "public health, morals, better education and the peace and good order in the state -and not because of race." Any attempt to end segregation, therefore, would be a violation of the state police power-and the Supreme Court did not even mention that. Last week, as Louisiana's house and senate passed bills dropping public-school segregation into the police-power category, one legislator sized up the sleazy plan for all: "The smartest in Dixie...
...view of the fact that the majority of the Southern whites and Negroes still prefer to maintain a segregated public-school system, a friend of mine proposes that separate schools be maintained for the majority of the children, with a small school for those few Yankees and NAACPers who just love to mix. In addition, a small, dilapidated one-room school should be kept in each southern county in order that our Northern "friends" might be able to continue their wailing about the wretched conditions in the South . . . Save your Confederate money, boys...