Word: craft
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Before the founding of the Teachers Association in 1891, teaching was looked upon as a mere craft or set of skills which could be learned by rule. Instructors did not have to measure up to any standard of knowledge of their subjects. In the late 1880's, a movement in Massachusetts to establish a state university, which should emphasize the training of teachers, was met, in 1891, by President Professor Hanus to teach education in the Department of Philosophy...
Having come a long way from teach- ing as a craft, the School, cooperating with President Conant in 1936, started giving the degree of Arts in Teaching to those who could demonstrate competence in the subjects in which they were to teach, their understanding of the social and individual significance of education, and their skill as teachers. This is one of the few Master's degrees given in America for proven accomplishment rather than for credits is courses...
...bland apologies from its Japanese crew. But none has failed to notice that the boat's brightwork was gleaming, that the three or four men aboard looked uncommon bright and neat for fishermen, had binoculars handy. Thickening the mystery was the fact that many of these fishing craft were owned by Orientals who were actually clerks, laborers and housewives...
Honolulu citizens have long declared that something ought to be done. Last week something was. At the fisherman's wharf, U. S. customs officers seized ten alien-owned fishing craft, announced that they would grab 70 more when they got in from sea. Reason: fraudulent registration...
...same Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in a "nice" residential district; both joined the same Scottish Rite Masonic lodge; both became trustees of the church and members of the Salvation Army's board. Mrs. Donnell and Mrs. McDaniel for 23 years have been members of the same Mother-craft club, and their children belong to the same church clubs and Sunday School...