Word: impartation
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Honeymoon Hate is essentially The Taming of the Shrew relieved of its light-hearted ribaldry and trimmed instead with lavish gondolic romance. Florence Vidor is charming enough, as she storms gently at her insistently regal husband, to impart some flavor to the insipid story...
...that the advance of the tutorial system depends upon the improvement, rather than upon the elimination of the lecture system, for only in this way can the student be given the detailed information upon which the tutor relies. Professor Eaton believes that a tutor is not intended to impart information, but to aid the student in giving verbal expression to his opinions upon the subject matter covered in courses, by which knowledge becomes an integral part of the student's mind, instead of a carefully catalogued list of facts...
Student Wheeler of the Cleveland Art School was virtually graduated the same day he matriculated. When they saw his first "hoss," his instructors recognized that he possessed instinctively, and could execute, most of the knowledge they could impart in a lifetime. With no model other than mental images of his favorite pony, "Morgan," and a long-legged, lean-jawed man in a gallon hat and leather chaparajos he worked up models full of tense horse-and-man action in which every muscle, strap and stretch of skin strained perfectly or lay in lifelike ease. So thoroughly did he know what...
...during his lifetime, were immediately passed by the Corporation, together with an expression of "regret at not being allowed to know or publish the name of the donor," and a prayer "to Him with Whom is the issue of all human counsels and efforts, to bless this design to impart a benefit to successive generations...
...engaging tutors feel that mere scholastic ability is not of the highest merit. They are mostly interested in a person of a strong, virile personality, who can inspire as well as teach, than they are in the man who may have greater knowledge but less ability to impart it. A men's scholarship in applying for a position as tutor, should be satisfactory; unfortunately, perhaps, it is not always required to be high...