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From mean boarding houses walked poor Greeks and other underpaid theologs...
...rural and small village schools, which serve 47% of the children of the Nation. It is significant that less than 70% of these children average to be in attendance on any school day, and that there is a tendency to leave them in charge of undertrained and underpaid teachers. The advent of good roads should do much to improve these conditions. The old one-room country school such as I attended ought to give way to the consolidated school with a modern building and an adequate teaching force...
...remember Hawthorne's creative genius smothered in a custom house or of Burns ganging ale in Dumiries; but that would be a pitiful exhibition of mid-Victorianism. And just a pitiful would be the counter suggestion that the fault of the grammar schools lies in political school boards and underpaid teachers; or that a little logic and a little disagreeable work is very "good for the soul." No, small Cousin Biliee must henceforth be allowed to vent his creative impulse on the fly leaf of a first edition "Ulysses", and improve the hitherto uncolored wood-cuts in a calf-skin...
Members of the Senate received, by mail, a petition from The Association of Overworked, Underpaid Dishwashing Housewives whose headquarters are "by the cookstove and the cradle, with the wash tub nearby...
...striking clauses of the petition: "We believe Congress should legislate less and less for industrial workers and more and more for the relief of the overworked, underpaid dishwashing housewives...