Congressional Record of the Second Session of the Sixty-Fourth Congress, 1917

they are moving with military precision all along the line, to get control of the education of th e children of the land. (p. 1001)

The cult of Rockefeller, the cult of Carnegie [...] is just as much to be guarded against in the educational system of the country as a particular religious sect. (p. 1001)

there are certain colleges in this country that have sought endowments, and the agent of the Rockefeller Foundation or the educational board had gone out and examined the curriculum of these colleges and compelled certain changes [...] It seems to me that it is one of the most dangerous things that can go on in a Republic to have an institution of this power apparently trying to shape and mold the thought of the young people of the country. (p. 1002)

these people [...] are attempting to get control of the whole educational work of this country. (p. 1005)

Professors of secondary education have been furnished southern universities and the same men furnished State departments of education for supervising secondary schools "on the sole condition that the man selected shall be acceptable to us." One case with regard to which a copy of the letter was sent us from the files by the General Education Board is that of the University of Virginia. It was testified, however, that in most instances these men were looked over by the General Education Board. In the case of the States of Maine and New Hampshire a similar condition was made with respect to demonstratior work by the Secretary of the Interior. (p. 999)