Word: teach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seniors who wish to teach mathematics or physics in preparatory schools and have not already secured positions may learn of several desirable positions by applying to the secretary...
WANTED, a tutor to live in my family in New Hampshire, and teach a boy of 9 years two or three hours a day. The tutor must be fond of Natural History. WM. JAMES, 18 Garden St., Cambridge...
...this request of the Alumni, the Faculty would act in direct contravention to their established policy of allowing the undergraduates to govern themselves. If the request is granted, the men will feel bound in honor to do nothing which would tend to dishonor our University. Games with professionals would teach the nine to accept defeat with resignation. They would learn to control their feelings; and thus a better condition of affairs would exist when we meet with defeat upon the college ball field...
...both to him and the instructor, is almost irresistible. However, with a severe effort, we manage to control our mirth. If the authors of such tricks are freshmen there is possibly some excuse for them, though it would seem that six months at college ought to be enough to teach most men to suppress the school-boy exuberance of spirits known as "freshness." If the offenders are upper-classmen, we can only feel sorry that men have to exist whose intellects are feeble enough to find enjoyment in such juvenile tricks...
Secondy. Because the present method of instruction does not teach declamation but a clear, straightforward presentation of matter...