Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Control astride its broad old back. The New York Academy of Medicine, which subtly is striving for spokesmanship of the U. S. profession, last week formally stated that it wants lifted all laws which restrain physicians from imparting birth control information; and that medical schools and hospital clinics should teach contraceptive methods. Argument: contraception, long a fact and now a spreading practice, should be placed under highest-grade medical control...
...cost of our expenditures during the World War [$21,850,000,000]. . . . Veterans must manifest a peacetime patriotism in future demands comparable to that which brought them honor in the War if the burden upon the Government is not to become intolerable and reaction impair their cause. If we teach our young men that service to our country means the Government thereafter must reward them irrespective of need, then we are undermining the very foundation of good citizenship...
...Army to train its Signal Corps pigeons. When he was transferred from Philadelphia to Fort Monmouth, N. J., it took Arthur some two years to get used to the change. But when he did consent to rule the Fort Monmouth roost, Arthur astounded the signalmen. He would help them teach a flock of young "squeakers" to home, by swooping down and herding the novices...
Inasmuch as it seems to be hopeless to expect a reform in the textbooks which teach free trade, internationalism, public ownership of private industry, etc., and inasmuch as it is apparently equally hopeless to expect the teachers in institutions of higher education to abandon their radicalism, and socialistic theories, the approach to the young man and the young woman who is about to become a citizen must be made independent of our educational system...
...beyond its campus. Among institutions it has sponsored are an annual conference of Negro farmers, the National Negro Business League, National Negro Health Week. It launched the farm demonstration service, now taken over by the U. S. Government. A truck goes through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi carrying instructors who teach the Negro farmer how to improve his farm, his wife how to manage the farmhouse. Tuskegee attempts to better the quality of local livestock: it will swap a pedigreed cow, chicken, hog with a farmer, take in exchange his meaner stock for its larder. Tuskegee sponsors the only clinic...