Word: taught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high place in the medical profession. As a freshman at Stanford, he watched Curtis Dwight begin a law career in Los Angeles ? a career that was to take him to the Superior Court bench. Ray Lyman kept his head down, studied in Germany and England, returned, taught physiology at Stanford ? and became Stanford's presi dent...
...Dane Professor of Law, succeeding Greenleaf, from 1848 to 1870. His "Treatise on Contracts", published originally in 1853, went through nine editions and was the standard treatise upon the subject until the publication of Professor Samuel Williston's '82 great book in 1920. The time when Parsons taught in association with Joel Parker and Emory Washburn is reckoned as another great period in the school's history...
John Chipman Gray (1839-1915) was in point of time the first of the great teachers who made the reputation of the school under Langdell and Ames. He taught in the school for 43 years. 41 of them consecutively. Beginning as a lecturer in 1869, in 1875 he became Story Professor, and was Royall Professor from 1883 to 1913. He was the leading authority on the law of real property of his generation, and his books on "The Rule Against Perpetuities", and on "Restraints on the Alienation of Property", are among the classics...
...champion appeared. Of these, only one had shown the vaguest possibility of becoming satisfactory. This was Maximilian Siegfried Victor ("Mocks") Schmeling who was once the champion of Germany, who has fought twice in the U. S., who is 23 years old, who looks like Jack Dempsey and is being taught to fight like...
...sports are to be taught in the schools, and there is no doubt organized sports have now a permanent place in their curricula, there is no reason why they should not be taught well. School-boys are none the worse for having their coaching at second hand if the quality is better, and both the colleges and the public share in the benefits that accrue from a higher standard of play...