Harold L. Clapp Papers

Appendix A
Bibliography (incomplete) of published articles and book reviews by HLC. Articles included in the Clapp Papers are not listed here. Articles are listed chronologically; starred entries are available in reprint from in the College Archives, the rest are in journals and newspapers in the Archives or in the College Library. Book reviews are listed separately.

Clapp, Harold. L. Editorial in Scarlet and Black. Oct. 6, 1944, vol. 52 p. 2
______. Meditations on a placement program or when should a foreign language be studied? Modern Language Journal 31 (April 1947), 203-207.
*_____. Stranglehold on education. AAUP Bulletin. 35 (Summer 1949), 335-48
*_____. The children learn French. The French Review. 23 (Jan. 1950), 227-33.
Courteline, George. Meteors. Translated by HLC. Arena, 3 (Easter 1953), 75-77.
Sartre, Jean Paul. Meditations of an Existentialist. Translated by HLC. Arena, 4 (1953), 2-4.
*Clapp, Harold L. Second fiddle to a puppet. French Review, 27 (May 1954), 453-59.
*_____. Stranglehold revisited. AAUP Bulletin, 40 (Summer 1954), 391-307.
*_____. Dictes moy ou, n’en quell pays. French Review, 28 (May 1955), 525-30.
*_____. ‘Paper doll pedagogy’ blamed for Johnny’s reading troubles. Des Moines Sunday Register, Oct. 23, 1955.
*_____. Contemporary education and juvenile delinquency, U.S. Congress. Senate. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. Interim Report, 1956.
*_____. Some lessons from Swiss education. Modern Age, (Winter 1957-58), 10-17.
*_____. School boards or boards of education? Bulletin of the Pennsylvania State School. (June 1957), 15-16.
*_____and Mortimer Smith. The council replies: a reply to Richard Henderson’s article in the Oct. Education Leadership. Educational Leadership, (Jan. 1958), 245-249.
*_____. And others. A conversation on teacher education. NEA Journal, (Nov. 1959), 68-70.
*_____. Scattershot scholarship. Modern Age, (Winter 1959-60)
*_____. The prose that depresses. Journal of Higher Education, 26 (Nov. 1955), 433-435.
*_____ and James D. Koerner. Teacher education; who holds the power? Washington, D.C.: Council for Basic Education, 1963.

Book Reviews

Liebling, A.J. and E. J. Sheffer. La Republique du silence. Harcourt Brace, 1946. Reviewed in French Review, 20 (Oct. 1946), 60-62.
Phenix, Philip H. ed. Philosophies of Education. N.Y.: John Wiley, 1961. Reviewed in University Bookman, (Winter 1962) 43-46.

Published book

Clapp, Harold L. and Odette de Lecluse. French A1—Supplement to Textbook. Grinnell College, 1946. (No copies known to exist)

Ph.D. Thesis

On Courteline, 1935, on file at University of Wisconsin

Appendix B
References to Harold Clapp’s ideas and writings are in the following:
Rickover, Adm. H. G. Education and Freedom. Dutton, 1959. Pgs. 142, 200.
______. Swiss School and Ours: Why theirs are Better. Little, Brown, 1952. Pgs. 104-113, 158-159.
Lynd, Albert. Quackery in the Public Schools. Boston: Little, Brown, 1953. Pgs. 77, 104-108, 118, 155, 158, 164, 265-66, 268.

Some newspaper articles commenting on Copp’s ideas are reproduced in Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings… (series 8)

Prepared by Anne G. Kintner, 1958, with later additions.