Word: teach
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great naval victory off the Yaln. The attack by the Japanese was well planned. The evolution consisted simply in steaming in large circles, or spirals, and picking out two ships at a time, until the enemy's fleet was reduced to two ships, which escaped. This engagement does not teach much of a lesson, except to be ready when the time comes to fight. The Japanese were too feebly opposed to tell anything about the relative merits of different classes of ships. The effect of this battle, like that at Ping Yan, was very decisive, opening...
THACHER WANTED, next September in a collegiate school in New York city, a Harvard graduate and specialist, to teach Latin and Greek. Salary $900. Apply at once to Hiram Orcutt, Manager, N. E. Bureau of Education, 3 Somerset street, Boston...
TEACHER WANTED, next September, in a collegiate school in New York city, a Harvard graduate and specialist, to teach Latin and Greek. Salary $900. Apply at once to Hiram Orcutt, Manager, N. E. Bureau of Education, 3 Somerset street, Boston...
...wherever the blame, the effect is alike unfortunate. As in the case of athletics, the college has to teach an ideal which should be already recognized. The very fact that the college itself finds it necessary to hold stated examinations, tends to encourage new students in their conviction that beyond passing an examination they have no concern with a subject. This spirit greatly impairs the value of the college examinations. It is carried into daily work to such an extent that the real student is rarely developed before the junior or senior year, and often...
...question concerning what Shakespeare intented to teach by his play, and whether the madness of Hamlet was real or feigned, have formed the themes of countless discussions. It is probable that Shakespeare never contemplated teaching any lesson. He was much too great an artist for that. It is certain that, whatever may be the result of these discussions, it will never be known what Shakespeare thought about the madness of Hamlet. The mystery in the play is its chief attraction. It would have been easy for Shakespeare to make a puzzle in the first four acts, and to solve this...