Word: taught
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Frost will describe in his lecture the recent contest against the legislation in Kentucky to exclude negroes from all institutions where white students are taught. This legislation has, however, been finally successful, and all the negro students have been obliged to leave Berea College...
...tutors whose business it is to teach him some game and see that he plays it. He is not led away to be stuffed with botany, geology, astronomy or metaphysics, but a cricket bat, a tennis racket, a football, an car, is put into his hands and he is taught to use it. And, then, when he comes to the university he has formed a habit and continues to follow his bent. The French boy studies or plays marbles in the streets; the German boy promenades the streets in droves, although now less than he used...
...good legislatures the financial interests of the country should be kept apart from the government as much as possible. The spirit of the citizen should be raised and he should be taught to have courage and to say what he thinks without fear of contradiction. Every citizen of the United States should keep constantly before him the splendid vision of his country, as no other young country has ever had such opportunities as are found here...
...community, however, may not be the better for learning, for, though brutal crimes may be less frequent, knowledge has taught man many ways of petty meanness. Educated men, though infrequently possessing those personal qualities which enable them to exert immediate control over the wills of others, are able by their dispassionate criticism to rule in calmer moments. To bring things back to their proper perspective is the art of the learned...
...contest, either individually or as a member of any team, who, either before or since entering the University, shall have engaged for money in any athletic competition, whether for a stake, or a money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument whatever, direct or indirect, with the exception that he may have received from the College...