Word: taught
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great fault, however, these chronic iconoclasts overlooked. The main business of colleges is teaching; not teaching; this or teaching that, but simply teaching. The colleges ask what is to be taught, and having been informed, they get the best men to be had in the world and teach as no other force can do. And so when war became upper-most in the minds of the American people, the colleges took up their torches to proceed in that direction. It was a new subject, but the business of teaching was as old as the hills. They immediately sought those...
...famous performance of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles in 1881. As editor and writer of school and college text books in Greek he was with professor Goodwin the most widely known of American Grecians, both in this country and England. Probably no other teacher of Greek in America has taught so many students as Professor White, and no one has had greater success as a teacher. He insisted that his students should acquire the power to read Greek at sight, and he actually accomplished his object and won at the same time the love of his pupils, as is attested...
...machine gun positions, etc., similar to those actually used by the French Army on the western front; and also gallery and target practice, bayonet fencing, field exercises, practice marches and manoeuvres. A large corps of topographical instructors have been added to the military department, and each cadet will be taught how to make road, position and outpost sketches...
...subjects, the importance of which in the law grows from day to day, must be studied and taught with thoroughness. The Dean's report demonstrates this in a most interesting manner...
...testify. There are, to be sure, American families in which the habit of obedience has been enforced for several generations and discipline has been one of the gifts of inheritance. But the number of such families has been rapidly decreasing under modern social influences. The soldier must be taught obedience. That is the chief, though not the only, object of military training. The hardest problem this nation confronts on the threshold of war is not the recruiting of soldiers, but their training. It is useless to wail over neglected plans. We must face the situation that exists...