Word: imparted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows the cause of facial neuralgia, but to relieve pain physicians some times inject alcohol into the tough, sinuous trigeminal (facial) nerve or sever its root. Neither of these treatments is satisfactory, however, for alcohol injections may give only transient relief, and a severed nerve may impart a slack, dead expression to one side of the face...
...House of Lowell was blessed with a carillon, an authentic Russian Zvon from Moscow. And with the Zvon came Saradjeff, the official Zvonar from the Soviet Government, commissioned to ring the Zvon and impart his knowledge to the barbarians of Harvard. All would have been well if Saradjeff bad not had a sensitive Russian Soul, unaccustomed to the complex chaos of America. To this chaos was added the horrible fact that few Americans spoke Russian and Saradjeff spoke no English...
...more to teaching than a knowledge of the subject taught. This attitude is merely a single instance of a general attitude to the same effect that teachers are born and not made, that teaching is an art which no amount of training in the science of education can impart. Dean Holmes of the Harvard School of Education has summed it up as the opinion that "any fine boy or girl will make a good teacher" whether or not he has any knowledge of the technical aspects of teaching itself...
...more value than others to the average student; but none are simple or valueless. With this in mind their relative worth can be approximated; and the criteria used include the organization of course material, its interest to a well-educated person, and zest with which lecturers and instructors impart their pearls of knowledge...
Coaches of all four colleges impart confidentially that their respective team will take home the honors. Cornell is sure of it. Dartmouth is flaunting its hurdlers. Yale points to hurdlers Day and Shields, sprinters Burlingame and Kerr, and pole vaulter Bill Harding. Yesterday Harvard's assistant track coach, Bill Neufeld, said "I have an idea we're going to win this meet...