Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great teaching is rare. It is a divine gift. But, whereas the great teacher is a source of spontaneous inspiration to his students, there is no reason why the supposedly ordinary teacher should cease trying to inspire his students. Students are not isolerant of the man who is trying to teach to the best of his ability. And such men, those who are primarily interested in teaching, the college needs, for the time will come we shall find that, by avoiding the responsibility of the actual task of imparting learning in order to devote more time to meticulously unravelling...
When toast time came, M. Painlev raised an approving, effervescent glass to his hosts: The National Horse Industry Association. Their chef had proved, he said, that even meats not generally esteemed could achieve a rare deliciousness. Minister of Commerce Bokanowski added the inspiring information as to how many pounds of horse, donkey and mule meat are annually consumed in France. Subsequent toasts to le cheval, Vane and le mulct were capped, of course, by the final and inevitable "A la Belle France...
...study may possibly lead them into paths divergent from the professorial chair. A man entering the Law School or the Medical School has his future definitely decided; in a certain number of years he will be a lawyer, a physician. For him the opportunities for changes of mind are rare. Different is the case with the Arts and Sciences men; their goal is vague, indefinite. In consequence many men now leaning toward teaching prefer to reserve their decision until the further study which has come to be a requisite to success in education has solved their problem, in the meantime...
...from the vernal wood makes the Colonel's lady and her well known sparring partner sisters under their respective skins, so does a stroll along the banks of the Charles reveal things which one never thought possible in this dear Cambridge. On a hot day, such as was the rare fortune yesterday, the upper reaches of the limpid stream resembled the Lido and Bailey's Beach more than a dignified and usually deserted river. Young Cambridge and a liberal assortment of canines disported themselves in the intriguing and unanalyzed waters, making whoopee all around Stillman and transforming Lief Ericson...
...group added to the Museum exhibition are authentic Sung dynasty portraits on silk of a rare and valuable nature The general them of the four pictures is "Wen-chi's captivity in Mongolia and her return to China" Wen-chi is the name of a Chinese lady who was captured and carried away to the North by invading Tartars in 195 A.D. She was ransomed after 12 years of exile in the desolate country of Mongolia and returned to marry the leader of the Chinese army. Her misfortunes and their happy ending became the subject of legends and poetry that...