Word: teach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students are described as not only rural, but shabby and almost coarse. The students defend their institution as one of the smaller colleges which has struggled bravely against poverty, has educated men who have taken prominent places in public and private life, and has inculcated and continues to teach sound learning and pure morality. The students whose rough exteriors have been referred to are often the most deserving and ambitious, and in after life they seldom fail to honor their Alma Master. Dartmouth College needs no other or better defence than the remarkable oration of Daniel Webster, spoken years...
...also one of her sons, has been recently indulging in criticism of the college. At the annual dinner of the Harvard alumni in Washington a few weeks since, it is reported that Mr. Long said that "it was one of the charges against the university that it did not teach Greek. His complaint was that it did not really teach anything; meaning thereby that it gave no sound instruction to a student who did not care to study." But one might ask what college ever did undertake to give "sound" instruction to such a student? Ex-Gov. Long's charge...
...conference was called, and, after much debate, the resolutions were adopted. The method of consideration was of attack, and apparently every contingency was provided for. The definition of professional was tacitly understood not to be the common one, but a graded distinction of ordinary professionals by which those who teach for a living are not excluded, but it reaches those who give public exhibitions, or exercise tendencies which would have a bad effect. The principle involved seemed to be clear to all, and it is perhaps better that such should be the case than that a set form of words...
...What to teach in Biology, by H. Newell Martin...
...college only affords the one course, in each "branch," that is of any value, and that the seeker after a "broad education" is always fortunate enough to know how to select this course. It is surely encouraging to find that one can learn all that the college can teach, without studying the numerous courses that she offers...