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When public opinion is at fault, as it is in regard to the value of real scholarship, specific remedies can have little effect, and their effect must be very slow. The millennium in education, as in polities, will not be fathered by a formula. But that does not mean that the actual situation has to be accepted with a passive fatalism...
...indications and proofs of failure, the author is probably correct. The American people has for years looked to the little red schoolhouse to remake the world, and has showered money on educational machinery to bring about a millennium. This has failed miserably; typical products of the methods in use are the Philistines, the Babbitts, who cramp all progress by their unthinking complacency. A further indictment of the public school system is evident in the predominance of youth among the criminals and gangsters. Warden Lawes has recently stated that in the last few years he has often looked at his prisoners...
...captained by Author Ellis Parker Butler and Sociologist Henry Pratt Fairchild fought to a tie in a spelling bee held in Manhattan's Town Hall Club. Lawyer Henry Waters Taft (brother) was referee. Both captains were eliminated early in the game, Author Butler by "idiosyncrasy," Professor Fairchild by "millennium...
...arrived in the U. S. at eleven, was educated at the College of the City of New York, and plunged into journalism. The War put a stop to his propaganda paper, Fatherland (later resumed as American Monthly), brought Viereck persecution but no bodily harm. In the post-War millennium he thrives again. Other books: The House of the Vampire, Confessions of a Barbarian, As They Saw Us (Foch, Ludendorff and other leaders...
...authentic Norwegian Royal House had been extinct for some 27 generations, for more than half a millennium. The Norwegian people had learned to speak Danish under Danish kings for several hundred years before their "union" with Sweden. In 1905, although they might not exactly want to pick a king from Denmark, could the Norwegian people, all things considered, do better than to choose the husband of Tomboy Princess Maud, daughter of Mighty Britain, niece of Colossal Russia? In a second plebiscite 259,563 Norwegians voted for the young man who used to darn socks, sew on buttons; 69,264 voted...