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...proclaimed in every generation since Journalist Henry Grady publicized the term after Reconstruction. In 1880 Poet Sidney Lanier envisioned an agrarian Utopia: "The New South means small farming ... meat and bread for which there are no notes in bank ... and grass at nothing a ton." In 1951 Historian C. Vann Woodward decided that the "New South is not a place name as is New England, nor does it precisely designate a period, as does the Confederacy. It vaguely sets apart those whose faith lies in the future from those whose heart is with the past." Arkansas Democratic Senator Dale Bumpers...
...test, administered to 1856 college freshmen at 194 colleges, showed that new "conceptual" or "thematic" methods of teaching history in secondary schools may leave gaps in a student's education, C. Vann Woodward, Sterling Professor of History at Yale who worked with Bailyn, said yesterday...
...corporation's action came in response to a report prepared by a committee headed by Yale historian C. Vann Woodward and formed as a result of a disruption at Yale last year...
Editor's note: Following the disruption of a scheduled debate involving physicist and self-proclaimed genetics expert William B. Shockley last April. Yale University set up a committee to examine the status of freedom of expression at Yale. The Committee, chaired by historian C. Vann Wood ward, made its report in early January, recommending severe sanctions for future disruptions and proposing guidelines for what constitutes acceptible protest against controversial speakers...
...wake of that demonstration, Yale President Kingman Brewster appointed a student-faculty committee, headed by Historian C. Vann Woodward, "to examine the condition of free expression at Yale." Early this month the panel declared that interference with free speech should be a punishable offense, even when talks are deemed "defamatory or insulting." The only exception would be "if a speech advocates immediate and serious illegal action, such as burning down a library, and there is danger that the audience will proceed to follow such an exhortation...