[834] Ibid., pp. 365, 371, 390, 394, 396, 404, Vol. II, p. 94.
[835] Ibid., Vol. II, pp. 80-118; 348-358; 415-444.
[836] The New York Times, July 24, 1925. Professor Van Tyne also said: “I have noticed many manifest errors and dubious statements as I ran hastily over the part devoted to the American Revolution, but the main trouble is in its organization, and its sense of proportion.... One virtue it has which I had not expected. It is not bitterly anti-British.”
[837] Personal correspondence, December, 1925, with Frank C. Cross, National Director of the Americanism Commission, American Legion. Mr. Cross gave this information because of an inquiry as to the extent and manner in which the Legion had become interested in the teaching of American history and the Constitution. See Appendix.
[838] The Des Moines Register, February 27, 1923.
[839] The Christian Science Monitor, August 31, 1923.
[840] Communication of the Ethical Society to the School Board, Davenport, Iowa, May 24, 1923. (In manuscript.) The communication refers to Charles Grant Miller’s pamphlet Treason to American Tradition for details.
[841] Hirshfield, Report, p. 74.
[842] Report of Special Committee on School Histories and Text Books Adopted by Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias September 20, 1923. It was also recommended that a copy be sent to the State Board of Education and that the Supreme Representatives be instructed to present the matter before the Supreme Lodge.
[843] “Concerning School Histories,” The New Age, March, 1923, pp. 156-157.