Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Industrial Workers of the World turned loose another threat. They plan an "early drive on Sacramento," the object of which is to teach that city a "lesson" for the prosecution of I. W. W. members under the criminal syndicalism law of California. The Wobblies would start a "reign of terror." The members would invade the city, fill the jails, start a free speech campaign, parade to the detriment of Sacramento's pride and complacence...
GREY TOWERS ? Anonymous ? Covici-McGee ($2.00). Joan Burroughs wanted to teach, really teach. She got a job at the University of Chicago. And that, according to her, is the last thing she should have done to satisfy her pedagogic yearnings. All the professors, she found, were sexually predatory. Their wives drank cocktails, were migratory almost every night. The authorities demanded that the faculty?presumably in its soberer moments?confine itself to research laboratories. Even the student body was regarded not as boys and girls to be taught, but as a corpus vile, a collection of human guinea pigs...
...have been deported, according to Sir Paul. The result is that it will be necessary first to build schools, and second to organize and train teachers. The middle class from which teachers would ordinarily come has been destroyed and the only ready supply of men and women fit to teach is a scattering of deported intellectuals in Europe and the U. S. These men and women, said Sir Paul, are waiting to return. As things now are education in the peoples' university is corrupt " because the authorities make truth subsequent to class distinctions...
...Annunzio. In the literary section, the works of Dante and d'Annunzio are given prominence. D'Annunzio's son, Gabriellino (Little Gabriel), has selected the best Italian films for exhibit. Troupes of theatrical and lyric artists will give renditions of Italian opera and teach the South Amercans how to sing Giomnezza (Italian slang for "Talk turkey"), Fascista hymn...
...average reader will find it extremely tedious?a tedium only occasionally relieved by passages of unconscious humor. "Excitement" in it is nil and it is difficult to imagine any one obtaining even a modicum of sensuous delight from its gray pages. The only other lesson it seems to teach is that life in the German family it describes must have been ineffably dull. A Young Girl's Diary has been approved by the Y. W. C. A., the Camp Fire Girls and Professor O'Shea of the .Education Department of the University of Wisconsin...