Word: instructed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enable our children to learn something," said one Soweto council member. "We have met the Afrikaans requirement by using it to teach such subjects as gardening, where the important thing is to show students what to do, not tell them. In other subjects, the teachers instruct first in Zulu, then spout Afrikaans while the students copy down what they've heard in Zulu. The rule is Afrikaner nationalism gone berserk...
...body which distinguishes male from female." Yet the persevering reader will discover, under the large heading of "Anatomy," sex organs of both the human male and female described at length and illustrated in five admirable engravings by Bell. In the 43 pages devoted to "Midwifery," the text could instruct the most distraught young husband snowbound in the country. All of it is illustrated by Bell's drawings?drawings so explicit that many subscribers have clipped them out of their volumes and destroyed them. Equally explicit is a drawing of Noah's ark, accompanied by elaborate calculations on the space needed...
...conspicuous lack of a jazz program. There are no courses given here in which students can study America's only native art form. While Harvard has never been known for its open-armed acceptance of performing and studio arts in its curriculum, there are nonetheless, faculty here competent to instruct modern painters, sculptors and photographers...
While most of the other Ivy schools, Yale included, are abandoning their freshman programs, Harvard has stood by its first-year squad. But with plenty of players coming in each year and a coach of Taylor's calibre, who has a six-year record of 79-29-1, to instruct them, Harvard has no reason to even consider abandoning its freshman skaters...
Also enlisted in Gummerson's cause were more than 100 students who called themselves the "Tenure Alan Gummerson" group which sat in first at the Economics department and then for ten days at the president's office. Gummerson says that he did not instruct the students in their actions...