Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conversion of the late great William Howard Taft from Wet to Dry was the high spot of last week's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, sitting in judgment on measures to modify or repeal national Prohibition.† In 1918 Mr. Taft, as Yale's Kent Professor of Law, was an avowed Wet. He wrote letters, later widely quoted, to his friend, Allen Lincoln of New Haven, opposing the 18th Amendment, predicting dire results from its ratification (TIME, Oct. 15, 1928). In 1923, as Chief Justice, he made a Yale commencement speech in which he called...
Last week his younger brother, Headmaster Horace Dutton Taft of Taft School (Watertown, Conn.), a brother tall, thin and angular but full of the Taft good-humor, produced a private letter William Howard Taft had written just after Herbert Hoover's election, to Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist, militant dry. Headmaster Taft explained he was offering this evidence to offset all erroneous interpretations of his brother's position on Prohibition...
...education on every bush" is the criticism leveled at modern education by Horace D. Taft, headmaster of Taft School, in a speech before the annual meeting and smoker of Hotchkiss School in New York yesterday. Aiming his attack at secondary schools in particular, Mr. Taft declared that a great many students are admitted to the Universities of the West with certificates from schools "that ought to be closed by law." Parental interference, school boards, and money stringencies all play their part to block the path of progress. The whims of individual educators are unavailing without a solid foundation of education...
...guard that brings the radical and the idealist back to a necessary compromise with the facts. The delicate balance between these opposing forces keeps history level-keeled, mankind level-headed. In his stand on the Prohibition question as well as in his condemnation of faddism in education, Mr. Taft shows himself to be a conservative, and a conservative of mighty calibre. His attack on new educational schemes and his plea for the old scholastic methods raise the serious question as to whether the swift pace of modern affairs has not tinted modern education with superficiality...
...partially taken the place of the classics. It is true, however, that specialization in college is often attempted without a sure foundation in the ancient fundamentals. In directing his criticism against the type of faddism that allows each preparatory school student to choose the subjects that he likes, Mr. Taft touches a sensitive spot in modern education...