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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...progressive education which has stemmed from the inspiration of [John Dewey's] experiments at Chicago has produced a generation of sloppy-minded youngsters who can neither read nor write. His take-what-you-like educational system, with its repudiation of the discipline that comes with difficult study, has turned loose a citizenry that is an easy prey for demagogues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...that once formal diplomatic relations are established, the Reds will have to treat U.S. representatives with a little more respect. At present some U.S. representatives, far from getting useful reports on Red China's difficulties back to the policymakers in Washington, are not even in a position to write a letter home (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: Toward Recognition | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...final member of the panel, J. Dougas Bush, professor of English, said that one problem today is that "poets write for other poets" rather than for the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish Speaks In Eliot on Poets | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Each group will write part of the general report of the Committee for "Self Examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Studies Council's Role In the College | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...read eagerly several articles in which the oath of loyalty for the NROTC has been denounced both by official stand of the CRIMSON and by the Young Progressives. During this time I have seen not one letter published by an NROTC student, hence I feel it my duty to write, not as an official representative of the NROTC, but as a midshipman who is disgusted with the stand taken by both the CRIMSON and the Young Progressives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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