Word: teach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Glenn bill, which makes it a penal offence to teach in mixed schools of white and colored pupils, has brought the Atlanta University into prominence. In 1869, the Freedman's Burean established the university and soon after the State appropriated a large sum for its support. The outcry raised against the Glenn bill was so great that a modification was introduced which withheld all State appropriations, and by so doing a direct income of $8000 per year was taken from the university. The policy of the institution has not been abandoned on this account, and the subscriptions of private individuals...
...there will be some "stick" practice for those who have not yet learned how to handle a lacrosse racquet; but it is needless to say that, unless a man shows interest enough to do the regular exercise in the gymnasium, he cannot expect that pains will be taken to teach him this later acquirement. Nobody need be discouraged concerning his chances of getting on the team, for six out of the twelve position are open. That is presuming that the old members will obtain their old positions. Of last year's team only Davidson, Griffing, Harvey, Harding and Drake will...
When President Eliot rose to respond he was greeted with three times three Harvard cheers. He said that what impressed him most as he looked around at the guests was the diversity of views held by the Harvard men present. He believed that the college did not teach men to think alike. Since the war Harvard has ceased to be local and sectarian, for every denomination and every school of economy is represented...
...last annual report the president of Harvard College gives a very interesting and encouraging account of that institution's efforts to promote the teaching of the English language and English literature in the preparatory schools, by steadily increasing requirements in this respect as conditions of admission to college. It appears that, with the exception of Yale College, all the leading educational institutions of New England have united with Harvard in the movement, and have issued identical lists of the literary works with which freshmen are required to be familiar. So far as the purpose of this endeavor is concerned...
...gentlemen of Harvard, are you aware of the fact that your college is in America and within a few miles of Lexington and Concord? Is it not a strange teaching that you give, by implication at least, when you exclude from your lis's every American writer's works? What inference must a student draw who comes to you saturated with Emerson, lovingly familiar with Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, knowing Irving and Hawthorne by heart, ready to write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley...