Word: teach
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...degrees with distinction; but it also points to a tendency in college students to devote their energies less to specializing than to general education. The President states that the Faculty are in doubt about the expediency of men trying for honors, except in cases where such students intend to teach...
...diminishes relatively to the number of students. The natural inference is that very few students wish to specialize, or that the requirements for honors are unreasonable. Even in the Faculty there are two opinions as to the advisability of seeking honors except by young men who intend to teach...
...great truth of the old vision is that the secret of a righteous life is to stand up. We teach our children to stand instead of leaning and lolling about, not only because it looks better to stand unsupported but because the habit carries a moral lesson. The first thing a recruit is taught to do is to stand straigt, no for looks but because the act of so standing conveys the idea of discipline. And for centuries the word in our language which is the typical expression fro absolute honesty has been uprightness...
...Graham's Mistake" is a light story of a foolish youth who, however, manages to teach a friend a very salutary precept...
...lecture which will be given this evening by Professor Channing on Methods of Teaching History, is evidence that the college is trying to answer the call for more instruction in science of pedagogy. Last year, it will be remembered, in the columns of one or two well known periodicals, as well as in our own, attention was called to the lack of opportunity for men who intend to teach to get the benefit of the experience of college instructors. It was shown that a man may understand a subject thoroughly and yet be unable to impart his knowledge to others...