Word: teach
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...football? West Point and Annapolis have done it with success, and it is needless to mention how many other colleges have had Yale coaching. At what college of note in the East will you find Harvard coaching in vogue? You cannot find it because there is no system to teach. Was there a single patent trace of Reid's labors this past season...
...Teach us to love, to triumph...
...Sargent does not believe in the illiteracy test for immigrants because it excludes some of the very best of them and admits anarchists and men who teach doctrines which cause distress to the country. He advocates a system of most rigid examinations and restrictions to prevent criminals, anarchists, agitators and people affected with disease iron entering the country. The inspection and examination, however, should be made, not in this country, but at the ports of embarkation...
...educational movement in China. New schools and colleges have been established by the government in the various provinces and together with civil service reform are strong evidence of the recent and growing nationalistic movement in education. Professor Moore says that there are unusual opportunities for American college graduates to teach in these new schools, as enough teachers cannot be found to meet the growing demand...
...acknowledge that, in the past; courses in Greek and in Roman literature have been sacrificed to men who intended to teach. Interest has been centred not on thought or method of expression, but on classification of verb forms or irregularities of syntax. A knowledge of the latter is no doubt necessary for appreciation: we must note the peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles...