Word: adapters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pedagogy. Teaching is the practice of an art, not the demonstration of a science, and art, I think, has to be learned by trial and failure. The true teacher is born, not made, and the most pedagogy can hope to do is to give hints. The most successful adapt themselves to the state of mind of those they teach. I purpose to offer suggestions along the line of history, large and broad, but brief and general, which each will have to apply for himself. When we come where specializations are necessary, on the whole the person who knows his subject...
...Yale-Harvard race. He has been rowing in the bow this year till Ives, who had been rowing stroke, had to stop rowing from heart trouble. Hagermann has had the training of being an oar on the Cornell crew. He has had to change his stroke slightly and adapt it to the Yale stroke. Gould and Pond are both new men, but they are heavy and row well. Ely was substitute on the crew last year and has greatly improved from his training this year. Mills played tackle on the foot ball team this year. Crosby is also a foot...
...speaker said that we have to observe that the Semitic people were not behind other people in advancing thought but they were fully as worldly as the Greeks and thus they were able to accomplish much good. The Semitic books stand apart from other books in their power to adapt themselves to practical needs of the people...