Word: teach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...England's forthcoming Royal College of Music, Mme. Jenny Lind has offered unconditionally to teach a number of free pupils, placing at the manager's disposal several hours per day which she is willing to devote to the task...
...Muller's series of lectures on "India: What Can it Teach Us," which have been delivered before the students of the University of Cambridge, will be revised and published shortly in book form...
...contestants this year, and we would have been perfectly satisfied to see any one of the three leaders disastrously defeated by the others. It is a matter of congratulation for us, I think, to have had the experience of the year past. It will teach Columbia a lesson, not to believe too much in any one of the three self-styled great universities who consider Columbia as a mere nonentity because her students do not happen to bunk together...
...little regard to modern style, that he looks positively quaint. Another equally learned professor, whom I met the other day, dresses also very plainly and unfashionably. Their manners are so unaffected and simple, with all their learning, and not in the least like the 'airs' of the students they teach. The freshmen have the grandest airs, and are the busiest boys in college. They are always overwhelmed with 'positive engagements,' and they 'have but a moment to stay, you know,' when they make calls. One cannot imagine these charming, simplemannered, unfashionably-dressed professors ever having been 'airy' young freshmen...
...living - professor; he waltzes three hours without resting - professor; plays the fiddle and imparts to others the secrets of the diabolical art - professor; walks a slack rope stretched across the street - professor; goes without eating twenty days - professor; rides four horses bareback - professor; sings in the choir - professor; teaches a brass band - professor; cures warts - professor; plays billiards for a living - professor; trains dogs - professor; performs some clever trick of sleight of hand - professor; does anything in the world except teach, and knows less of books and schools than he does of heaven - professor...