Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowry claimed that a textbook, "International Politics," by Frederick Shuman, is "smeared with the Communist line," and recommended that it be banned from University of Florida courses...
...student," says the Captain of Governor Warren. "I always figured he'd get farther on his personality than his legal knowledge . . .") They all learned what the Captain was after. He loathed the traditional law-school curriculum in which each course is a separate package, bound by the particular textbook cases at hand. He wanted to force a student to draw upon his entire knowledge of law. For all their sufferings, his students never regretted the hours they spent under the peppery little man who insisted that they look beyond their case books and think for themselves...
...Bertrand Russell. But L.S.U. found new President Stoke meant business about keeping politics off the campus at Baton Rouge. He wanted Louisianans to understand that the university was for education and not "an instrumentality of government." Nor was the university a playground. "Give a student a convertible and a textbook," he said, "and you cannot expect them to compete on even terms." To make sure the books won out, he reduced campus pleasure driving during school hours, restricted student phone calls in the evening, kept classrooms open all day, instead of the half-day L.S.U. had been used...
Though primarily concerned with the "trade" book and newsstand magazine, the course will deal with techniques common to the textbook, scientific book, and special-circulation magazine. The course will not offer specialization, in any one branch of publishing, but try to emphasize the basic techniques and problems...
...Textbook. In Little Rock, police caught up with a youth who had broken into an automobile, made off with a magazine called Crime Does...