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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...progressive education which has stemmed from the inspiration of [John Dewey's] experiments at Chicago has produced a generation of sloppy-minded youngsters who can neither read nor write. His take-what-you-like educational system, with its repudiation of the discipline that comes with difficult study, has turned loose a citizenry that is an easy prey for demagogues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...concern for the plight of the Grand Old Party. Said National Chairman Bill Boyle: "I earnestly pray that these failures will persuade the Republican Party that it must develop a program of its own if it wishes to preserve not only its own political party but the two-party system." Matters had hardly gotten to that extreme stage yet. A closer danger was that Republican diehards in the Midwest seize on the defeat of Internationalist John Foster Dulles as one more proof that the bipartisan foreign policy was a political albatross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Stand for Something | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...recurrent Crimson injuries are all the more serious because Harvard lacks depth. Coach Valpey simply does not have enough good football players to use a two platoon system. Yale does. The two Blue elevens may not be excellent teams, but at least there are two of them...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Crimson Struggles to Redeem Season Today in 66th Encounter with Yale | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

Davenport's two platoon system and crashing line blanked Winthrop 12 to 0 today. The Davenport squad mixed T plays and a fast single-wing attack to beat the Puritans. The first score came on a pass and lateral in the first period; Yale failed to convert. The Puritans replied with a flock of passes, but the Davenport line broke up the attack, and intercepted a Puritan throw late in the second quarter to set up its second score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Wins Football Title, Beats Berkeley 7-0; Four More Crimson Teams Triumph | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...Holgate has attempted to install too much of the Michigan system too quickly. As a result, his offense is often sluggish and poorly executed. However, Yale does have a fine passer in McCandless, and he constitutes the Blue's most potent offensive threat. Princeton had little difficulty going through the defensive line last week...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: JV Grid Contest Will Be Tossup | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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