Word: imparted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When W. J. Bingham '16, coach of the University track team in 1921 and 1922, heard of the appointment of Coach Farrell as trainer to the football team, he said, "Eddie Farrell has a spirit to impart to the football team which may be invaluable. For the last two years he has imbued it in the track team, I believe that he is now coming into his own, as his success in the coming track season will prove...
Biology 1 will provide everyone who takes it with a conversational knowledge of such popular topics as evolution, heredity, and parthenogenesis; and to those who like it, will impart an enthusiasm for biological science which will probably lead to further study in the field. Those who dislike it will do so because an occasional lecturer becomes unduly technical, and most of all because in the laboratory they will be forced to spend countless weary hours drawing unimportant pictures of bugs, leaves and frogs' legs with absurd minuteness. The limited conception of the scientific method which they may gain thereby could...
...know how to teach them, the remedy does not lie in the entrance examination. My impression is that most of the harping on the need of making the way into college more difficult is a smoke screen behind which members of college faculties are concealing their inability to impart to others the knowledge and interest they possess in the subjects which they profess. They are, of course, quite justified in doing this if the college exists, as some seem to think, for the sake of the professors...
...however, it is the student who is important, college executives must flood some way to free themselves from the thralldom to their faculties, by insisting that new appointments, and promotions as well shall depend primarily upon ability to impart knowledge and interest to young people. This and not stiffer entrance requirements, is the way to increase the number of graduates who will throughout their lives do credit to their Alma Mater...
...force of her arguments was established the most strongly when she declared that in 1924 alone she received 87,000 letters from women of the poorer classes asking for information on birth control, which advice she was unable to impart because of the narrowness of the laws. Birth control clinics in other countries, she said, are declared public utilities; in the United States they are suppressed as public nuisances...