Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon William's death in 1908, C. Chester Lane '04 took over, to eventually become the first director of the University Press. Formerly with the textbook publishing firm of Ginn and Co., Lane saw that the University was sending a considerable amount of material to outside publishing houses. The Economics and History Departments were regularly putting out their "Studies," and the "Oriental Series" was an established publication...
...appoint a committee to study school costs, as you stated. The committee (School Survey Commission) was appointed by the Legislative Council, and it recommended, among other things, that teachers be paid on a merit basis and that all school districts be subject to the regulations of the State Textbook Commission. You imply that I brought these matters before the Legislature as outlandish proposals...
...weapons that France and Germany have used against each other, none has been quite so insidious as the history textbook. Last week the daily Stuttgarter Nachrichten reported that the weapon is at last losing some of its power. Partly because of the work of Brunswick's International Schoolbook Institute, French and German historians have begun to correlate their tunes. One case in point: Alsace-Lorraine, taken from France by Bismarck in 1871 and returned after the victories of Marshal Foch...
Today, however, all that has changed. Says a current French textbook: "The German public almost unanimously demanded the return of Alsace-Lorraine . . . This time Bismarck agreed with the German general staff and the public. All besieged France could do was to point to the protests of the Alsace-Lorraine population, based on arguments of self-determination...
...Pacific, the destroyers struck with all their weapons-depth charges, torpedoes, guns-and realized all their manifold possibilities as warships. In the night Battle of Surigao Strait, they even had a chance of fighting in the old textbook fashion. Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf, cruising at the northern end of the strait with the U.S.'s older battleships, learned that a big Japanese force, including two battleships, was headed for the strait from the west to turn the tide in the battle for Leyte. Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers...