Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are, however, three constructive and practical suggestions which can be made. First, state Legislatures, by means of constitutional amendment, may be prevented from passing any regulatory laws on textbook or teaching in the university. Decisions of this sort should be left entirely in the hands of the regents. Second, the Board of Regents must be freed from political control as far as possible. There must be no opportunity for packing a Board as Governor Hartley did. By limiting the power of removal to that minimum possessed by the President over the higher federal judges such opportunity would be removed...
...gain livelihood, had learned the printing craft. As a printer he worked among the Dakota Black Hills, at Minneapolis, at Chicago. There he founded the periodical Dairy Produce, fought against spurious oleomargarine. (In 1902 Congress passed the bill he demanded, the oleomargarine be not colored artificially.) He wrote a textbook, The Dairyman's Manual...
...moldering in the rat-runs of deserted lecture halls. Its 575 pages are more simple, vivid and downright readable than the average run of best-seller fiction, not excepting the direct quotations from philosophic works, which are invariably well chosen to promote clarity and to demonstrate flavors. As a textbook for classrooms it has obvious shortcomings - the jump from Aristotle to Bacon; the skimming of Descartes and Hume. But it is something of a service to the unphilosophical public to have published such a book just prior to the convening [in September, at Harvard (TIME, April 5)] of the first...
...drive is conducted for the benefit of the Phillips Brooks House Textbook Loan Library, an institution which each year supplies a large number of students with used text-books at the nominal charge of five cents. This year, about 1560 books were loaned in this manner by the library...
...reference to evolution," it said, "has been eliminated by Governor Miriam A. Ferguson from a textbook on biology used in Texas. One of the passages deleted states with an egotism which is entirely unwarranted, we are accustomed to speak of man and animals whereas we ought to say man and other animals, for certainly man is an animal just as truly as the beast of the field...