Lessons From a Rural School Leader in My Youth
The narrator recalls a rural winter school where discipline and leadership reshaped students. A strong male teacher gave way to a smaller, commanding successor who earned the students’ respect. They embraced new learning, with improved arithmetic, geography, and moral stature under this leadership.
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Course Toward Ruin Warns Against Smear Campaigns
A national plea argues the United States must halt the vicious smear against President Roosevelt and his wartime allies. It asserts the president chose a broad coalition to secure victory, likening critics to disloyal figures and calling for patriotism and support for the war effort.
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Small-Town Boy Gains Fire of Knowledge and Discipline
In a memory from Rufus M. Jones, a community school shapes a future scholar by instilling exactness in mathematics and the love of poetry and prose. The speaker recalls how the school fostered discipline and personal judgment through teachers and peers. Wartime Red Cross aid requests rise sharply from 500 to over 4,000 daily after Pearl Harbor.
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