Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...card-carrying Communist in such a responsible position as teaching our youngsters, because it is teaching and preaching, as opposed to teaching facts. Did Ike think a Communist could contaminate such non-controversial subjects as mathematics or calculus? Easily, said the President. He was reminded of a Nazi textbook that had been permeated with politics. The simplest problems had been set up to conform to Nazi doctrine: "If there are so many Sudenten Germans in Czechoslovakia who actually belong to Mr. Hitler ..." Here even elementary arithmetic had been colored with politics...
There are two ways to end the textbook dwindle. First, the Registrar should send to the Coop, and other bookstores, his estimates of the courses' probable attendance. While these are not infallible, as witness the shuffling of classrooms, they do represent a study of past attendance and current trends in course popularity. This would provide buyers with a guide sufficiently before the term to be effective. Now, they must rely on random reports by individual professors on their own popularity...
...Ellison, a 15-year-old Alexandria, Va. high-school girl, was puzzled to find that in some textbook versions of the poem Sea Fever ("I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky"), the word "go" was omitted. She sent her problem to the author and back came a hand-written note from John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England since 1930, who wrote: "The word 'go' should be in the line. In some editions it dropped out somehow, but is now restored. It is the original reading...
Such words as "hermaphroditism" and "pseudohermaphroditism" have been mostly textbook talk in the U.S. until last week, when newspapers and radio brought them into shop and household (see PRESS). If most of the pseudoscientific chatter at the luncheon table made little medical sense, doctors themselves were largely to blame, because they have used some of the key words in different and confusing ways...
Alfred E. Velluci, who last year tried to pull obscene books and magazines off the newsstands, charged that statements in the textbook "The Story of Nations" tended to "praise, elevate, and distort the truth about the Communist form of government...