Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week came to the U. S. a funny-looking little man with a beard, named Abraham Isaac Kook. His visit may bring forth, for the benefit of the American Jew, as well as for the American Gentile, a more coherent account of this figure of speech, Zionism...
...Monday and Tuesday, March 31 and April 1, representatives of the Bell Telephone System will visit the University to interview seniors and graduate students in all departments of the University concerning opportunities for employment in the telephone industry...
...days of Dickens' visit to America-his final arrival in Manhattan, "replete with New England dinners"-the wonderful Boz ball, in his honor, acclaimed "the greatest affair in modern times." His triumphant entrance and forced march (unhappy man!) around the hall, preceded by the Mayor and Mayoress and the "perspiring City Fathers" and followed by the entire assemblage which fell in behind, "whooping and cheering like a Sunday School class at a picnic"-and then, the ungrateful wretch returning to England and writing his dreadful American Notes...
...seems bent in his new play on providing his own Book of Knowledge for the children. He teaches them what to think of psychoanalysis, Longfellow, free love, free thinking, Freud, democracy, war, Christian Science, futuristic paintings, electrons and similarly unrelated matters. It is just like having the famed Britisher visit us all over again...
Here is the Rabbi's thesis: "We can't have a common religion in the common public schools. We can't have a priest, minister and rabbi visit each school, for to do so would be to segregate the children into groups in an institution in which they should not be divided. The purpose of the public schools is to make for a political democracy. We cannot bring a divisive force into the public schools...