Word: text
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half-hour test will be held at 7 o'clock every morning on the text book assignments for the day, and after an hour's lecture at 8 o'clock the students will work in the field until 4 o'clock. The week's work will end at noon on Saturdays and men in good standing will be granted leave of absence from the camp until Sunday night...
Professor Hart's book was among more than a dozen histories which were mentioned by Hirshfield, who charges that these text-books were written or revised by their authors during or after the war with a view toward destroying the traditional American patriotic views of the wars between this country and Great Britain. He sees the real purpose of the writers to be aiming at an Anglo-American union based on British rather than American superiority...
...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...
...Text Book taken from Sever Hall yesterday between 10 and 1. Abductor identified. Nothing further said if returned to Box X, Harvard CRIMSON, by noon tomorrow...
...have no regrets whatever. I have read books here more interesting than the best books of your splendid library. I have become acquainted with minds more valuable than any printed text. Nothing could be more charming than my daily intercourse, not only with my fellow members of the Faculty, but also with the students. Thanks to the generous idea of the late Professor Schefeld and to the hospitality extended to me by the University, I was in a position to participate in your college life. I have been, for the past four months, one of you. More than ever before...