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A Retired Colonel Takes on the Educationists

In 1939 a quiet middle-aged man who had for the time being retired from the army and was living in Long Island, decided he would take on Harold Rugg. There was a fight for you. Harold Rugg was one of the Frontier Thinkers (as they styled themselves) who set out in the twenties and thirties to remake American society. Professor Rugg, who dispensed his tablets from Columbia Teachers College where he served at the feet of John Dewey, was the author, at the time Colonel Augustin G. Rudd moved in, of books and pamphlets no less than five million copies of which were circulating in the nation’s schools.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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A Retired Colonel Takes on the Educationists

In 1939 a quiet middle-aged man who had for the time being retired from the army and was living in Long Island, decided he would take on Harold Rugg. There was a fight for you. Harold Rugg was one of the Frontier Thinkers (as they styled themselves) who set out in the twenties and thirties to remake American society. Professor Rugg, who dispensed his tablets from Columbia Teachers College where he served at the feet of John Dewey, was the author, at the time Colonel Augustin G. Rudd moved in, of books and pamphlets no less than five million copies of which were circulating in the nation’s schools.