Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently George Horace Gallup's Institute of Public Opinion asked Professor Bagley and Teachers College's famed Emeritus Professor William Heard Kilpatrick, leading spokesman for the Progressives, to define the Progressive v. Traditional issue in a question to be put to voters. After two days' travail, each of the professors brought Dr. Gallup half of a 110-word question. Dr. Gallup threw up his hands, abandoned the idea. The question...
...Meaning of Progressive Education lies deeper, however, than questions of efficiency. For the first principle and the religion of Progressive Educators is democracy, and their biggest question: how to achieve it. On the left wing a group thinks that Progressive Education should be chiefly concerned with the social order. Opposed are those who are chiefly concerned about individual development. Recently Progressive Education's No. 1 present-day philosopher, Ohio State's gaunt Professor Boyd Henry Bode, in a book called Progressive Education at the Crossroads, declared that nothing but chaos could result from exclusive attention to children...
...which the Church and the Hearst press might well agree: "The time to fight in America is NOW." Joe Connolly had just been at San Simeon. So his sincerely spoken words seemed also to mean that old Mr. Hearst, who has been on both sides of many a public question in the past half century, had now decided to turn on his ex-pals the Fascists...
...Pittsburgh last week at a Community Forum appeared Editor Clarence Hathaway of the Daily Worker in a debate with Father Charles Owen Rice of Pittsburgh. The question before the meeting: "Can a Catholic Accept the Outstretched Hand of Communism...
Newton Arvin's biography of Whitman, however, belongs with the best of the books about his poetry. The first clear exposition of his political beliefs, it establishes his relevancy to the present so convincingly that few readers are likely to question it. Brief and compact, with subtle critical formulations worked unobtrusively into its smooth and scholarly prose, it places Whitman's poems in relation to the life of his time-not only to radicalism, the Abolitionists, the Utopian socialists, the Jacksonian Democrats, the youthful robber barons, the trade unions, but to the educators and scientists whose work Whitman...