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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State." It was almost impossible for the greater number of students to get that at the first asking. Government 1 complied by purchasing, in all, eighteen books, just enough to permit everybody to do their week's work. This week, however, the conscientious members of the department decided to use Fritz Morstein Marx's "Government in the Third Reich." Of this they were able to obtain just four copies. When it is taken into consideration that there are approximately 500 in the course, and only 78 hours during a week in which Boylston is open, it becomes mathematically impossible...
Even if one-half of the students in the course were to buy copies of Marx, everybody would still not be able to read it. Yet all that Government 1 need do is to purchase six more books for public use. In the future, what is more necessary is that the department be sure, before requiring students to read a certain edition of a certain book, that it can supply enough copies...
...program was the commission's proposal for changing the curriculum. The graduate of the traditional, classical high school, it said, "knows the story of the geese that saved Rome" but is generally ignorant of the French Revolution, of "Mussolini's and Hitler's use of power." Plumping for a thoroughly progressive program, the commission proposed that highschool studies be built around five cores of human activity-language arts; social relations; home and vocational arts; creative and recreative arts; nature, mathematics and science...
...acre Hoover Field "to prevent collisions." Too close to military fields, cut in half by a public road, overhung by high tension wires, a bluff and an omnipresent Goodyear blimp, airline pilots last year protested to the Bureau of Air Commerce against Washington airport's further use for big, modern transports, threatened to quit landing there in 60 days. This speeded bills to enlarge the port, which were vetoed by President Roosevelt on the ground that no private concern should own the Capital's airport. Threatened with loss of their jobs, pilots gave in, still uneasily use...
What he had given them, to all appearances, was the Administration's rounded view on prices. As such its chief significance was 1) that the Administration might use it as a reference point for future policy, 2) that it might help to resolve public bewilderment caused by conflicting statements and acts of the President and his Cabinet...