The Goose-step: A Study of American EducationSinclair, Upton
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The Goose-step: A Study of American Education
Sinclair, Upton
Education -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States
Men who can thus turn culture into cash are seldom permitted to hide
their light under a bushel in capitalist society. President Atwood has
also become editor of a magazine; or rather director of the “Institute
of International Information,” a contrivance for getting subscriptions
to a magazine called “Our World.” In its pages you may find a picture of
our worthy physiographer in full academic regalia, holding one of his
geography books, decorated with ribbons, clasped in his hands. For four
dollars you may join this “Institution,” and get the magazine for a
year, and “have the privilege of asking any question of international
significance, etc.” The funniest thing about the proposition is that our
pious and super-respectable president of a reformed atheist university
is here working hand in hand with and advertised alongside of Mr. Arthur
Bullard. Surely President Atwood does not know who this terrible
creature Bullard is—an international revolutionary conspirator who,
concealing himself under the alias of “Albert Edwards,” endeavored to
undermine American institutions by a Socialist novel called “Comrade
Yetta,” and a most shocking “free love” novel, “A Man’s World!”
CHAPTER LXI
A LEAP INTO THE LIMELIGHT
The program of converting Clark University into an advertising
department of Ginn & Company proceeded merrily so far as concerned Ginn
& Company; but it caused great distress to the faculty of the
university, which held a series of meetings and prepared a memorandum to
the board of trustees, in which they bitterly denounced the new policy.
Also there were signs of revolt among the students; even the Rotary
clubs and other business organizations of Worcester began to tire of a
diet of geography, fried, boiled and hashed for three meals a day. I
have not been admitted to the inside of President Atwood’s psychology,
but some of his professors suspect that he began to realize that
something desperate must be done, and resorted to the favorite device of
George M. Cohan, who, whenever one of his plays began to lag, would come
dancing out on the stage with an American flag.
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