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C O N T E N T S Acknowledgments ix Introduction: 1 “To Embrace Every Child of California” Chapter 1. 20 “The Honor of the State” Chapter 2. 27 “The Unfortunate, the Lazy, and the Feeble-Minded” Chapter 3. 34 “They Can Neither Read Nor Write” Chapter 4. 49 “Beautiful but Dumb” Chapter 5. 61 “The Hordes . . . Invade the Campus” Chapter 6. 75 “The Decencies of English” Chapter 7. 92 “The Tides of the Semi-literate” Chapter 8. 105 “Viewed as Disgraceful by Many Scholars” Chapter 9. 117 “The Technically Qualified” Chapter 10. 125 “Bonehead English” Chapter 11. 133 “Below Acceptable Levels” Conclusion: 138 The Disdainful Embrace Notes 143 Works Cited 161 Index 171 ...

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