Word: speeching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...times, revealing. And any novel which includes a character like the good Captain Horn who had one very bad night must eventually satisfy, even as does this one from the many refreshing descriptions of the many refreshing descriptions of the Ladies of the Compound. "As a preliminary to speech she pressed the extended fingers of a small freckled hand against her uncorseted hip. Hers was the type that iniquity might have made voluptuous; but godliness had left her merely dowdy...
Trials for the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate will be held in Harvard 6 this evening at 7 o'clock sharp. Candidates are to prepare a five-minute speech on either side of the question: "Resolved, That Education is the Curse of the Present Age." This is the subject chosen by Harvard, Yale, and Princeton after their protest against the subject as signed them by the Eastern Debating League. The trials will be judged and the men picked by H. P. Sharp 1L., who is coaching the debating team...
...indictment does not apply to the intellectually docile student himself. Not even authority can make a mind so servile as apathy. The student whose critical contribution to his own education is confined to a reaction to the bearing of his professor, or his necktie, or his manner of speech, is dooming his own mind to be a cold storage warehouse, whence after months of disuse a fact may be resurrected in the same condition as that in which it was stored away...
...classroom teachers cannot well go, being tied by their apron strings to the children of their communities. But the school superintendents can get off. In February they pack their bags, hold tryst, keep the Association going at its lively pace, and when they get home again make a speech telling the classroom teachers all about...
Instruction Methods. A resolution was passed urging all schools to install radios, "the most effective means now at hand to bring about desirable changes." A speech: Simplify marking systems so that parents can understand. Another speech: Do not classify children into groups, into "mutt classes," "dumbbells," "morons;" "low I. Q.'s" (Intelligence Quotient). "Incalculable harm may be done by giving children paralyzing inferiority complexes." Another speech: Since the advent of the "junior high school" (seventh to tenth grades), the fourth and fifth grades have been a "dumping ground" for inferior teachers, the best teachers being concentrated in kindergarten work...