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Startling call from eminent professor of English

“Let’s bring back McGuffey’s Reader — to College” is how Carl Bode, University of Maryland, titled his article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Wrote Bode: “I guarantee that regular doses of McGuffey will brighten their eyes and bring roses to their cheeks… teach them to concentrate on the printed page… give them some of the memorable poetry and prose of our Anglo-American inheritance… make them better men and women, not to mention better-spoken men and women.”

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Startling call from eminent professor of English

“Let’s bring back McGuffey’s Reader — to College” is how Carl Bode, University of Maryland, titled his article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Wrote Bode: “I guarantee that regular doses of McGuffey will brighten their eyes and bring roses to their cheeks… teach them to concentrate on the printed page… give them some of the memorable poetry and prose of our Anglo-American inheritance… make them better men and women, not to mention better-spoken men and women.”