Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nowhere in their civics textbook (Our City-New York) can New York City's public school children find anything about Tammany Hall or their city's extra-legal government. To complete their education the City Affairs Committee, a non-partisan reform organization, last week offered a heedless Board of Education a new textbook that was all about Tammany. It was called New York & The Sea bury Investigation. It was edited by Columbia's Professor John Dewey, famed philosopher and unselfish friend, of every reform. In satirically simple language it described the city's "boss system...
...textbook used in the course, Taussig's Principles, is in many places out of date and seems unduly simple in the light of conflicting theories. Wherever possible, the Department is trying to supplement it with other reading. The course is conducted wholly in sections, probably the best method in a subject of this kind. Obviously everything depends on the instructors, and for the most part they are among the best in the University. Their task is made difficult by the necessity of trying to satisfy both those men who are content with the broad outlines of the work and those...
...textbook used has been Kroeber and Waterman's "Source Book in Anthropology," with some work in Professor Tozzer's "Social Origins and Social Continuities." There are bi-weekly tests covering the reading and the material in the lectures is taken care of at November, Mid-years and Finals. Numerous slides are shown in the lectures and there are walks through the Museum with a section-man to correlate Professor Tozzer's lectures and the exhibits...
...Allen's book, My Basketball Bible, has had wide distribution and is regarded as a fundamental textbook by many basketball coaches...
...until 1923 a military institution. Surprisingly, it had no military president until then, when Major Enoch Barton Garey, a brisk, sturdy graduate of St. John's and West Point, military science professor at Johns Hopkins, became its head. Also surprisingly Major Garey, though his manual of arms textbook is standard in U. S. colleges, abolished military training at St. John's. Major Garey worked for the cultural improvement of St. John's, but he and the trustees disagreed on policies and in 1929 his resignation was announced. Last year able Douglas Huntly Gordon, 30, became president...