Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. James Kerney, 60, publisher of Trenton, N. J.'s three newspapers, friend of President Wilson, author of The Political Education of Woodrow Wilson, sometimes used as a university textbook; of pneumonia following a long illness; in Baltimore...
...school terms shortened in one of every four U. S. cities & towns; $40,000,000 in back salaries is owed to 40,000 teachers; 100,000 teachers are unemployed: school enrollments have upped 960,000 while school revenues were falling $150,000,000; school building expenditures are down 80%, textbook purchases down...
...David Copperfield may well be come the text posterity knows best. So loudly indignant were ruffled British criics, however, that Publishers Harcourt, Brace blew hot & cold about bringing out a U. S. edition. They scheduled one for last week, withdrew it, finally compromised on publishing a school textbook of Graves's version, further edited by one Merrill P. Paine, Elizabeth, N. J. school teacher. Readers who took the trouble to compare The Real David Copperfield with Dickens' original found Graves's version an actual improvement. Even after Schoolteacher Paine's anxious revision of the revision, David...
...Superintendent O'Shea, whose regime has by no means satisfied educational idealists. In 1928 he protested a birth-control exhibit at a city Parents' Exposition. Year after that he closed a high-school auditorium to a talk on free speech. In 1930 Dr. Campbell banned a history textbook which challenged the sanctity of U. S. institutions. Last week Dr. Campbell defended his history-teaching concepts, elaborated his educational philosophy thus: History: It wouldn't do, would it, to tell a boy of eight, nine or ten all the facts in the life of his own father? Then...
...Textbook scribblers of coming generations, gazing back on the second quarter of the 20th Century in frantic search for a Turning Point, may very well seize upon the "Ulysses" decision as its symbol. Here was a judicial opinion which, a few years before, might have caused bonfires to be lit from Coast to Coast as the tocsin rang out its warning to the pure in mind. It was couched in language which almost any intelligent person might read and even enjoy, being free from the customary pomposity and elephantic periods of the bench. It stated quite clearly that to call...