Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn of the century, U. S. headmasters found it a prodigious job to get their students into college. No uniform requirements existed, each college held its own examinations in June or September. to which the candidates were obliged to journey no matter how far. In 1899 a national Entrance Board was suggested by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who already, at 37, was a moving spirit in U. S. pedagogy. Many an august college president objected. But Harvard's liberal Dr. Charles William Eliot approved, pointing out that such a board would only set the examinations. Colleges could still admit...
Last week the flower of Georgian England watched George & Mary unveil Queen Alexandra, congratulate Edwardian Sculptor Gilbert. Watching were Edward, Prince of Wales who had put on his Welsh Guards uniform, the Duke of Gloucester as a hussar, the Duke of York and Prince George as naval officers, Premier Ramsay MacDonald, the Duke of Portland. Next day King George knighted Sculptor Gilbert who had outwaited the world...
...expenditure of $6,000 a week on radio advertising was not then justified (TIME, Feb. 29). Immediately a flood of protests from radio listeners engulfed Time, Inc. The number of protests was not huge as radio "fan mail" goes (22,231 letters). But the letters were distinguished by their uniform literacy (chief sources: business & professional men & women, students) and their emphatic insistence that "The March of Time" be continued for its educational service...
...hearing in the stuffy little Commons Pleas Courtroom at Bridgeton, N. J. went hundreds of curious folk, mostly parents. Citizen Smart, a Canadian Army veteran, put on his uniform and four medals. Mrs. Smart testified she had been graduated from a New York grammar school, had had one year in high school. Her children, she said, were learning reading, writing, arithmetic, "moral ethics, character building and allied subjects." Then small Arthur Smart read a fairy tale. Elizabeth Smart did sums...
Ruled Judge Stanger: "These children should go to school. It would be a sad day for America and a step toward feudalism if parents started teaching their own children the sentiments of a family instead of the uniform standards of modern education...