Word: children
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Annually the Macy's stages this grotesque parade to inveigle children and parents into its Christmas Toy Department. If a balloon is found the finder who sends it back gets a $50 prize. Last week's balloons, including a 168-ft. Krazy Kat-faced dragon, a 30-ft whale, went toward the Atlantic Ocean...
...pedagogy over the merits and morals of the jingles which Mrs. Elizabeth Foster Vergoose of17th Century Boston sang to her large brood of moppets and which her son-in-law, one T. Fleet, published in 1719 as Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children...
Modernists, behaviorists, say that "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" will teach children to steal pigs. They call "Little Jack Homer" bad-mannered. They say that "The Cow that Jumped Over the Moon" is cruelly improbable. Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., herself a child prodigy (she "used a typewriter" at the age of three), has tried to attack Mother Goose constructively by promulgating informative jingles, rhymes that "represent life" (TIME, Jan. 12, 1925). Example...
...children who read about the three funny little pigs are often those who grow up to be readers of G. A. Henty and Zane Grey." Only a cretin, she implied, could get literary satisfaction out of The Little Red Hen or the senseless animism of Peter Rabbit. She offered as an example of what would be more suitable, a story about a child named Peter who "ate 'n ate 'n ate spinach and loved and loved to drink his milk every day until he was strong enough to lift his little horse Trott Trott high over his head...
Flying to the rescue of oldtime nursery rhymes came Associate Professor Annie E. Moore who teaches a course in child literature at Teachers' College. Said she: "If there's anything I abhor, it's stories about children who accomplish wonders by eating cereal and spinach. . . . Until this story came out, I never knew she [Miss Duggan] and the Bureau of Educational Service existed in the college...