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1. Secondary Schools in the States of Central America, South America, and the West Indies: Scholastic Scope and Standards. Bulletin, 1915, No. 26. Whole Number 653

Author

Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED) and Smith, Anna Tolman

Abstract

The States of Central America and South America are in the midst of an industrial development, which imparts new impulses to their educational activities. There is at once an awakened sense of the economic bearings of elementary or popular education and of the need of a readjustment of the work of the long-established secondary schools. Efforts in the latter direction are of special interest to other nations, as it is in the secondary schools that the directive classes are educated. Schools of this order determine in great measure the opinions and purposes of the men who control public affairs and promote international sympathies and interests. In all the States secondary education is the preparatory stage to higher institutions and in several instances forms a department in the university organization. The intimate view of the content of secondary education in the States of Central and South America afforded by the particulars discussed in this paper is of interest to all persons engaged in promoting international relations, and particularly so to those who must determine the equivalence of the scholastic standards maintained in different countries. A bibliography is included. Individual sections contain footnotes. [Best copy available has been provided.]

Published
1915

3. Censorship and Fear.

Subjects
FREEDOM of the press, CENSORSHIP, PRESS
Abstract

The article reports on the repression of the South American press. It states that censorship in all forms is spreading through South America, incidents in Peru and Bolivia where newspapers are forcefully taken over by military and press staffs are forcefully told to take days off work are all proof of the increasing censorship in South America. It further states that freedom of press now only exists in some parts of South America including in Colombia, Chile and Ecuador.

Published
1970

4. Billy in Catholic Country: He Collides with Clergy.

Subjects
BAPTISTS, CLERGY, CHRISTIANS
Abstract

The article focuses on Baptist preacher Billy Graham and his "crusade for Christ" in South America. It states that Graham has claimed that there is no city that can compare to the Catholicism in Lima, Peru. However, the Catholic bishops have warned their flocks away from Graham's sermons because many Catholics have disobeyed the orders of their hierarchy.

Published
1962

5. Inflation's Outer Spaces.

Subjects
PRICE inflation, COST of living, MONEY & economics
Abstract

The article focuses on the inflation in South America. It states that South America has received the hardest strike of inflation across the world wherein Bolivia ranked first, followed by Chile, Brazil, and Argentina at the global cost-of-living-index of United Nations (U.N.). Moreover, the struggling countries are forcing their central banks for credit expansion in order to print money.

Published
1957

7. On the Map.

Subjects
ECONOMIC history
Published
1928

8. RAW STRENGTH IN BRAZIL.

Subjects
COUNTRIES, AGRICULTURE, POPULATION
Abstract

The article offers several descriptions of Brazil. It mentions that Brazil is potentially one of the world's greatest agricultural nations. It stresses that Brazil was the world's fourth largest nation after Russia, China, Canada and until the U.S. added Alaska. It states that Brazil covers nearly half the surface of South America and half the continent's 140 million population.

Published
1961