Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governess Miriam A. Ferguson's prospects of escaping impeachment (TIME, Nov. 30, Dec. 7) brightened last week. To be sure one additional charge was leveled at her. The State Textbook Commission, of which she is chairman and of which her husband at her instigation was appointed clerk, recently made a contract for supplying all the spellers used in state schools for the next six years. The contract involves the greater part of $1,000,000. With four companies bidding, the contract was awarded to the highest bidder but against the advice of the Attorney General, who declared the contract...
...will do a textbook of the art and science of politics under democracy--that is, of practical politics, of the polities of job getting and boob bumbing? Surely there is a long felt want there." This is Mr. Mencken's latest dictum. Once again the modern Machiavell speaks the credo he has long assumed. Not a treatise which will lift the ethics of the profession of politics into the realm of the ideal, which will make of the gentlemen at Washington the "Guardians" of the state, but a textbook of bunkum and blither, a composite of the formulae...
...apparent contradictions in the Bible to any such theory can be explained with simplicity. He believes that the only significance of such a work as Genesis is to present the spiritual truth about God and the origin of the universe, and that it should be regarded as a textbook of biology. He goes on to say, in the report of his evidence given at Dayton...
...select the personnel of his course from the throngs of undergraduates and the graduates of "Harvard, Yale, and Pomona who besieged the doors of Hollis 11 last year, the course has since been transferred to Professor Robert M. Gay of Simmons College, an instructor of no small reputation, whose textbook on composition, "Writing Through Reading," is considered as satisfactory as it is possible for a textbook on such a subject to be. Although robbed of Professor Copeland's highly diverting presence, the members of English 5 seem assured of competent instruction at the hands of his successor...
...will go to the relief of European students and to local charities, such as the Family Welfare Society of Boston, the Cambridge Welfare Union, the Industrial Aid Society of Boston, and the Salvation Army. The books and magazines will be given, as usual, to the Merchant Marine, except for textbooks, which will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Textbook Loan Library...