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...commenting specifically he declares that Professor Hart's text-book can only have a most baleful influence upon school children for it is destructive of patriotic pride and tends to deaden patriotic spirit. In reviewing the book, he quotes the following "objectionable" passages...
...cinema. It may replace the text-book in the schools...
...Peixotto's statement that such wives are made desirable by their greater urge to regulate "community life." That, says The Chronicle, means the life of other families. And one family at a time is enough. The Superintendent of Schools at Newark, N. J., banned the Red Cross text-book on hygiene and home care of the sick because it advises that alcohol and whiskey be kept in the home medicine chest for emergency purposes. A movement is understood to be on foot to inform the Superintendent that other similar publications mention narcotics by name and prescribe doses...
Felix Frankfurter, Law '06: Cases on Interstate Commerce. The second, revised edition of a text-book for law-schools...
There is one hindrance to the use of the Library which is due to the students themselves; for of late there has been much annoyance caused by the thoughtlessness of some students, who consider the reading-room a place for conversation or animated discussion on some point in their text-book. Discussion is very good in the right place, but we would remind these zealots that it is impossible to study while there is such an aggravating noise as is made by a conversation carried on in a loud whisper or in an undertone. April...