Word: taught
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...points,' and combinations of 'points'," which finally produced the system about to go into force. Professor Emerson then discusses most interestingly, in the real body of the article, the ancient and modern language question, the possibility of omitting Greek, and the order in which the languages are at present taught in the schools...
...Dixwell left the Latin School and established a private school on Boylston place, where he taught for twenty years. Senator Lodge and Governor Wolcott were among his pupils. He gave up his work as a teacher in 1871, and retired to his home in Cambridge, where he had been living up to the time of his death. Mr. Dixwell was one of Harvard's oldest graduates...
...courses at Radcliffe, is answered by Professor Byerly with a list of twenty-five professors "of whom the University and her sons are justly proud, and whom no one can suspect of being intellectual degenerates, and yet they" he adds, "and they only, are the Harvard instructors who have taught for ten years or more at Radcliffe. Surely Professor Wendell's opinion is strangely at variance with the facts, and perhaps we need not yet despair of the University...
...Contemporary Review contains the lecture on "Teaching of English Law at Harvard," which Professor A. V. Dicey delivered last spring upon his return to England. In a most eulogistic manner he analyses the methods used at the Law School, and after showing that the students have been taught to live in a legal atmosphere by means of their clubs and magazine, draws some lessons from the workings which Oxford would do well to follow...
...absolute power which is vested in the Church, represented by the Pope. In his Encyclics many of the evils of the times are attributed to placing State power above that of the Church. These writings maintain that teaching should be restricted, and that no philosophy or science should be taught which goes against the Church. The most important of these Encyclics, entitled "Libertas," appeared in 1888. In this letter the Pope protests against the worship of liberty, saying that the Church must govern all worship, and defining liberty of speech and of teaching, as freedom to say or teach anything...