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...when the report was scheduled to appear, campus & classroom have smoked with rumors of radicalism and suppression. Scripps-Howard Columnist Harry Elmer Barnes, onetime sociology professor, got an advance peek at the report, called it "the most revolutionary and significant document in American education since the days of Horace Mann." A first-rate, head-rolling revolution is what the Commission wants, but in Education, not Government. Down, cried the Commission, with pedagogy and its vast jerry-built structure of normal schools, teachers' colleges, Schools and Departments of Education. "The Commission proposes in the field of teacher training...
...necessity for attending code hearings now being held in Washington, will prevent Hiram Mann, argumentative campaigner for the underdog, from giving his talk on "Rugged Individualism" before the Liberal Club tomorrow night...
Members of the Liberal Club were looking forward with a good deal of enthusiasm to Mr. Mann's speech since he was coming to Harvard with the express purpose of getting into a fight with the Liberal Club. For many years he has been agitating for appropriations by Congress for the men working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. One of his feats in the course of this agitation has been to run an advertisement in the Herald-Tribune every other day pleading the cause of the Navy Yard workers...
...time he told how he had thrown New York's fashionable Lake George colony into confusion 30 summers ago by means of a large, gleaming sea serpent. He confessed that he had fabricated the serpent to give his story-loving friend, the late Col. William D'Alton Mann, longtime publisher of the defunct Town Topics, "something to talk about." Said Artist Watrous: "I got a cedar log and fashioned one end of it into my idea of a sea monster or hippogriff. I made a big mouth, a couple of ears, like the ears of an ass, four...
...anchored the horrific hippogriff close to the path which Col. Mann's boat would have to take. . . . [When the boat passed near by] I released the monster. It came up nobly. . . . Mr. Davies [Acton Davies, onetime dramatic critic of the New York Sun] who had a rather high pitched voice, uttered a scream that must have been heard as far as Burlington, Vt. Mrs. Bates [mother of Actress Blanche Bates], a very intrepid lady of Milesian extraction, stood on the seat in the boat and beat the water with her parasol. . . . Colonel Mann shouted, 'Good God, what...