Word: vineland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Historian William Hovgaard-"was driven far to the southwest, and finally made land on the coast of America, probably near Cape Cod. Leif sent out two Scotch runners to explore the country, and these men brought back grapes and some wheat-like grasses." Leif called his new country Vineland. Next year he sailed west again from Greenland, passed "Helluland" (probably Baffin Land), "Markland" (probably Nova Scotia), and came again to Vineland where he collected a great cargo of grapes and timber which he took to Greenland...
Thomas L. Shipman, Marblehead, lecturer on Industrial Hygiene; Charles F. Wilinsky, Boston, Baltimore '04, lecturer on Public Health Administration; Richard F. Clippinger, Vineland, New Jersey, instructor and tutor in Mathematics; Arnold D. Hestenes, Madison, Wisconsin '36, instructor and tutor in Mathematics...
Because they objected to "lockstep" education, Arthur Smart and his wife Mary, of Vineland, N. J., would not send their children to public school. Mrs. Smart taught small Arthur, 9, and Elizabeth, 7, while Citizen Smart looked on in approval. Last month local school officials took steps to compel them to send the children to school (TIME, May 2). Much to their relish, the Smarts were interviewed and photographed by metropolitan newshawks. Last week they were again in the news. The time had come for Mrs. Smart to prove publicly her fitness to teach...
...some time the education of the two oldest children has been in charge of Mrs. Smart, who once worked in a book store herself. Neither she nor Citizen Smart liked public school methods-"Lot of nonsense," they said. But the Vineland school authorities did not see it the same way. They demanded the Smart children. Mr. Smart said no. As a free citizen of Vineland he would educate his moppets as he pleased. To President Hoover, Governor Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey, the State Department of Education and the Vineland supervisor he sent a ten-page letter explaining...
...Jersey law permits parents to send their children to any schools they wish, provided the teaching is as good as that in the public schools. Last week the Vineland School Board invited Mrs. Smart to appear before it for examination as to her fitness to teach. Truant Officer Jock Steineder drove out to the Harmony Truth Centre to bring Mrs. Smart to the meeting. But he drove back without her. It was "inconvenient" for her to come, said Citizen Smart gaily. The Board then served five-day notice on the Smarts, by which they must show their competence...