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Show DROP ENGLISH HISTORY. "Will Not Be Read Hereafter in Public Pub-lic Schools of Chicago. Chicago, March 21. Histories of England were dropped from the lists of supplementary reading for the public schools at th meeting of the board of education tonight. None of the histories his-tories will contain a mention of English Eng-lish except as an incident in connection with the war of independence. For three month Trustee John T. Keating, who is the national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, has been fighting the use of histories of England, which he declared were prejudiced in favor of England. The district superintendents decided to eliminate English histories, and nothing noth-ing but American history will be included in-cluded in the supplementary reading. |