Word: taught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wolf-suckled, snake-taught, elephant-advised hero of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books...
...change be wrought in a baseball team in two short weeks? Hardly. Baseball is chiefly a game of skill, and it takes months and sometimes years to build a team which can master its difficult technique. But football is direct combat, and so eleven husky boys can be taught all they have to know in a dozen days of practice...
Yoshiwara Life. Seen from within, the life of the quarter does not present the roseate aspect visible to chance Occidental visitors. The geisha must undergo a lengthy educational process during which they are taught to dance, sing, and play the long necked unmelodious samisen. Further instruction renders them expert in all the formal minutiae of welcoming, supping with, attending, and bidding good-bye to their clients...
...Harvard men will have an opportunity to get valuable experience through the service work in organizing boys' clubs, in coaching teams and in training and teaching immigrants. The value of this education work is really threefold; it benefits the individual taught, the student who teaches, and the city at large. The necessity for this work, according to R. W. Kelso '04, a leading social worker, is a challenge to educated youth...
...where the scene is laid, for Charles Paddock--Himself, and for the janitor's pet mouse which ran up Bebe Daniel's silk stocking, frightened the haughty young lady, and made her outdo the best girl hurdler old Colton could boast. Whoop it up for the Kappa Betas, who taught the haughty young lady a lesson, and then when she had won the relay for dear old Colton, promptly took her in. Whoop it up for the director who conceived the notion of locking Bebe in the Astronomy Observatory all night, the night before the race. And whoop...