Problem of teaching modern history in the University

Abstract

The trouble with Paul Clayton Worthington was that he was always looking for trouble. In the first place, he was a non-conform- ist. He wore shoes, but no socks. The flame of patriotism burnt low in his breast. When, as fairly regularly happened, he received his draft papers, calling him up for military service with the U.S. Army, he would telephone the authorities and tell them, in a con- fidential voice, that he had it on unimpeachable authority that Paul Clayton Worthington was a fellow-traveller, a drug addict or a homo- sexual. A moment's consternation or heavy breathing at the other end and a letter would arrive cancelling his draft notice. It was even rumoured that his passport had been taken away.