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Another State Bill Makes New York Look Conspicuously Silly The Boston Transcript publishes under the title " Silly Cooperationists " an editorial attack upon a certain " Commission of Intellectual Cooperation" apparently functioning abroad, which proposes to eliminate from school histories the praise of " narrow national activities" and substitute a history dealing objectively with international affairs. This view, says the Transcript, " assumes that education is the same thing as propaganda, which it is not." Whereupon the Transcript proceeds to show that it is. " The child is educated," if you please, " by arousing pride and joy in his heart. . To interweave heroic deeds, battles...
Passing the scientific question of the vitalizing effect of battles long ago interwoven with rocks and rills, it remains sufficiently apparent that the editor of the Transcript believes in education by the incitement of patriotic pride. It is useless to deny an intention to " inculcate hatreds " when the purpose of education is made the inspiration of pride by reference to wars and enmities. And it is worse than useless to call the resulting attitude of mind "culture." The bare fact is that such a theory of education makes the school an agency of chauvinism, ignorance and prejudice. The Germans proved...
Internationalism may as the Transcript suggests, be silly. Patriotic pride may be one of the goods of life. But to require the schools to teach a Deutschland Uber Alles jingoism in order to inculcate joy in the childish heart is a silly and dangerous thing...
...Young 1G.B. defeated J. C. Cairns 1G.B., 6-4, 3-6, 6-0, 6-1, for the tennis championship of the Business School yesterday afternoon. Mr. George Carens of the Boston Transcript refereed the match...
...Wakefield 1G.B., 6-2, 6-3, 9-7, and J. M. Young 1G.B. defeated H. D. Wilson, 6-0, 6-3, 6-4. Today sees the finals between these two when they meet at 2 o'clock, the match to be refereed by George Carens of the Boston Transcript...