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...been building up since last July, when a graduate school group invited as a guest speaker Dr. Harold Rugg, emeritus professor of Columbia University's Teachers College, whose left-of-cen-ter textbooks have long been stirring a storm in U.S. public schools. No sooner had Rugg appeared than-two Ohio newspapers sounded the alarm. "Marxian doctrinaire," cried the Ohio State Journal. The Columbus Dispatch echoed: "A defiant and unabashed radical." The newspapers needled Ohio Governor Frank Lausche into requesting a trustee investigation of the charges, and in short order the trustees issued their edict...
...rule requires all speakers on the Ohio State campus to be approved by President Howard L. Lewis. Trustees ordered the censorship after two Columbus, Ohio, newspapers condemned the speech of Harold O. Rugg, Columbia University professor emeritus, who is well known for his "unorthodox" economic views...
Columbia Teachers College's HAROLD RUGG, 65, one of the top apostles of the "society-centered" and "child-centered" school. In his famed social science textbooks (more than 2,000,000 copies), Harold Rugg slashed away subject barriers, tried to revolutionize social science teaching in the schools by combining history, geography, civics, economics into a "total portrait." His blunt, New-Dealing criticisms of U.S. history, past & present, raised storms of protest in the '30s and early '40s, made Author Rugg ("To keep issues out of the school is to keep life...
...victorious Yale team included William J. Graham, Richard E. Shapiro, and Leo C. Graybill, who was chosen the best speaker of the evening. State Senator James E. Callahan, William Perry G.Ed., and Charles Rugg of the English Department formed the judging panel...
...Boston law firm of Robes, Gray, Best, Coolidge and Rugg, representing Harvard in the suit, reported that an attorney called them the day after stories of the suit appeared in Boston newspapers, claiming that a client of his was confident he had the art-work in question...