Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a bigshot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated, and picks too good a teacher (TIME...
...pince-nezed Professor William E. Knickerbocker, chairman of the Department of Romance Languages, had been in hot water with students for the last four years. He had been accused of anti-Semitic remarks, and of refusing to recommend certain instructors for promotion because they were Jewish. The other teacher, Economics Instructor William C. Davis, had segregated Negroes and whites in the dormitory he supervised. The college had made a full investigation, cleared Knickerbocker, removed Davis from his dormitory job, and declared the matter closed. Last year New York's City Council disagreed: it said Knickerbocker should be fired. That...
...tell him that heretical doctrines were being taught. Joined by a teacher in Boston College High School, they next wrote a letter to the Pope himself. Then the four wrote to the General of the Jesuit order in Rome. Students in Boston College classes, they said, were being taught "implicitly and explicitly" that: 1) salvation can be won outside the Roman Catholic Church; 2) a man can be saved though he does not hold that the Catholic Church is supreme among churches; 3) a man can be saved without submission to the Pope...
...good are the close-up studies of gratuitous violence: in the poolroom the Dukes brutally beat up a couple of outsiders; in the school manual training class the kids (armed with the crude guns they have been secretly making at their work benches) defy, bully and finally terrorize their teacher...
...give Washington dictatorial powers over the Impressionable Youth of the Nation are talking through their hats. The bill itself is drawn with a delicate feeling for states' rights touchiness; the money goes to the states practically without any strings at all. Any federal bureaucrat who attempted to tell a teacher how or what to teach would promptly be hung from them chandelier in the U. S. Senate...