Word: teach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some men who have the pretention of giving seminars and private instruction in branches which they know little about. Their principal victims are, of course, freshmen; and one case in particular has come to my notice of a graduate giving seminars in subjects which he was utterly unfit to teach. Now, such a man may think he is a very able fellow to be earning money in such ways, but to any candid mind he is a swindler. I speak of this simply to warn freshmen against going to seminars indiscriminately. Let me add that...
...Psalm was read responsively. Mr. W. N. Fessenden, the noted tenor, now singing with the National Opera Company, sang the tenor solo, "Salve Regina," by Will Cox, after which Dr. A. P. Peabody read a selection of Scripture and spoke on the following verse: "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou should go; I will guide thee with mine eye." The main thought of his remarks was: Good is always with us; His eye sees us always, and He knows all our acts and thoughts. Be sure that His eye rests upon you with pleasure...
...have to renounce in part that training in Latin and Greek which former generations of Englishmen have received. The assertion is made more peremptorily, more impatiently than ever before. Let us give up the preposterous doctrine that Latin must be learned in order to learn French, and let us teach French in order to teach Latin. In so doing we do not sacrifice literature to mere business, for the modern languages have literatures as well as the ancient. There exists a French literature which comprises books, poetry, devotion, philosophy, science, history, politics-a literature not less but more extensive...
...danger is that it breeds a haughty reserve to the problems of life, fatal to all true enthusiasm. The desire of the cultured is often to be reflective spectators rather than ardent participators. In launching out on the sea of life, action is the discoverer of truth; practice will teach us how to proceed...
...keep history from dying out in the student-consciousness. It would be unprofitable to follow this little classical stream through its meanderings to its present deeper and wider flow; it is enough to say that it began to expand during the tutorship of Charles Anthon, who was called to teach classics at Columbia in 1820. Later on he divided this department with Professor Drisler, but remained at the head until 1867, when he died. Without this steady current of classical and antiquarian instruction which he represented at Columbia for nearly fifty years, it is doubtful whether such an impetus would...