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
In order to reach Philadelphia from Boston we take the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, which is a Morgan road with a recent Harvard
overseer for chairman, a Brown trustee for vice-president, a recent Yale
president for director, and a member of the Yale advisory board, a
Washburn College trustee, a Wellesley trustee, a Pratt Institute
trustee, and two Harvard visitors for directors. The second part of our
journey is on the Pennsylvania Railroad, which is a Morgan road and is
interlocked with the Guaranty Trust Company, Massachusetts Tech, Johns
Hopkins, Princeton, Yale, the University of Pittsburgh, the United
States Steel Corporation, Bryn Mawr College, Wilson College, Carnegie
Tech, the Girard Trust Company of Philadelphia and the University of
Pennsylvania. Or, if we prefer, we can take the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, which has a Johns Hopkins trustee for president, and another
Johns Hopkins trustee for director, a Pittsburgh trustee, a Princeton
trustee, a Lafayette trustee, a Rutgers trustee, a Teachers’ College and
a Lehigh trustee for directors, also a Morgan partner and a First
National Bank director and two Guaranty Trust Company directors and a
trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. Or we can take the Reading
Railroad, which is Morgan and University of Pennsylvania, University of
Pittsburgh, Swarthmore and Pennsylvania State; or the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington, which is University of Pennsylvania, Equitable
Life, and Johns Hopkins.
We arrive in Philadelphia, which means the City of Brotherly Love, and
observe in every down-town city block its ideals embodied in especially
large men in blue uniform, riding on especially large horses and
carrying especially large clubs, also revolvers scarcely concealed.
Philadelphia is located in the state of Pennsylvania, which means Penn’s
Woodland, and was named after a radical pacifist. All over these
woodlands now ride the state constabulary, and club the heads of persons
such as William Penn whenever they show themselves in action.
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