Word: taught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long labor asked his teacher whether one panel was good enough. When the teacher told him to figure it out for himself, Smith scrapped the panel and made another one. The desk was still serving him last week, and so was the lesson. Said he: "Morals can be better taught incidentally...
...because they are offered in separate schools. Time is too short to allow duplication of the program. Insofar as thoroughness of education goes, rest assured that the medical schools anticipate no preliminary training beyond the stated requirements, and therefore discuss all relevant material in far greater detail than that taught in College...
During the war, the new Director was a Navy lieutenant. He taught art at the University of Pennsylvania for a year before coming back to Harvard and Quincy Street last year...
...took up wrestling at New York's City College ('39), hasn't lost any of his 300-odd matches since graduation. Famed on the force and around the mats for his polysyllabic vocabulary, Wittenberg has a master's degree from Columbia's Teachers College, taught public school briefly before turning cop. He talks earnestly of "pectoral muscles" and "neural paths," is proud that he is one man who can mangle his opponent but not his mother tongue. After hours, he dabbles in oils and plays enthusiastic chess. In fact, he considers wrestling a kind...
...itinerant Methodist preacher, John Ransom was born and raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects...