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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commission then studied the problem of rectifying errors in text books, which were alleged to be a mainspring of racial prejudices. A resolution, subsequently passed, empowered the Institute to call the attention of any country to such errors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Intellectual Cooperation | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...first indictment against Evolution is that it disputes the truth of the Bible account of man's creation and shakes faith in the Bible as the word of God. This indictment we prove by comparing the processes described as evolutionary with the text of Genesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dixit | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...some time Superintendent of the New York State Anti-Saloon League until he was accused of peculating its funds, and convicted of third degree forger for "juggling its books." Having served nine months of a year's sentence, he was paroled and is at [remainder of text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: A.P.P.P.P.A. | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...Chicago, it was announced that A Civic Biology, one of the text books containing an unBiblical account of the creation for the use of which Teacher Scopes was arrested to test the Tennessee law, had been placed on the reading list of that city's high and junior high schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ballyhoo | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...were the days of real sport. Carpenter Hay didn't hang the open door right. This famous portal swings only one way--in, always in. It's high time, says almond-eyed Chu-Chin-Chow, to declare a Monroe Doctrine for China, including "exploitation" along with "colonization" in the text. Perhaps he doesn't like having his affairs regulated by strange, jabbering merchants and ship's cooks. And who shall say him nay? After all, the "heathen Chinee" may be human--who knows?--just like all the other heathen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HEATHEN CHINEE | 6/16/1925 | See Source »

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