Building a School: A Fearless Portrayal of Men and Events in the Old Bay State, 1906-1919 (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)Gleason L. Archer
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1331093104
ISBN-139781331093107
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Excerpt from Building a School: A Fearless Portrayal of Men and Events in the Old Bay State, 1906-1919
In this volume will be found the humble and the great, in the engrossing drama of life - sketched from life itself. Herein is unfolded the pitiful beginning and the painful progress of an institution, too humble at first to attract the watchful eye of the Great Octopus; and too mighty in the final conflict to be strangled or kept down. And unfolding, the sketch reveals, and names, men. great in public affairs of Massachusetts, as the public never sees them, at the business of legislation under the great dome on Beacon Hill.
The Great Octopus is there with its crimson tentacles reaching from Committee Room to Committee Room, from the halls of legislation to the Governor's office, playing its pawns in the great game of legislation.
And the searchlight plays not only upon the heights of Beacon Hill; but over the State itself and discloses who controls our public schools, and why; who controls our State Boards and all things educational in Massachusetts, to the furtherance of class distinctions that even now threaten the life of the Republic.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
In this volume will be found the humble and the great, in the engrossing drama of life - sketched from life itself. Herein is unfolded the pitiful beginning and the painful progress of an institution, too humble at first to attract the watchful eye of the Great Octopus; and too mighty in the final conflict to be strangled or kept down. And unfolding, the sketch reveals, and names, men. great in public affairs of Massachusetts, as the public never sees them, at the business of legislation under the great dome on Beacon Hill.
The Great Octopus is there with its crimson tentacles reaching from Committee Room to Committee Room, from the halls of legislation to the Governor's office, playing its pawns in the great game of legislation.
And the searchlight plays not only upon the heights of Beacon Hill; but over the State itself and discloses who controls our public schools, and why; who controls our State Boards and all things educational in Massachusetts, to the furtherance of class distinctions that even now threaten the life of the Republic.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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