Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although parochial schools are prohibited, ministers may teach their doctrines to children and grown-ups "within the church confines...
From Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, the delegates received little hope of a Methodist union. Said the Bishop: "I don't know as we of the South could join a church union which did not teach a judgment to come and punishment for sin. I am not narrow and bigoted, and if the other fellow can get along without these beliefs it is all right with me. What I say is give me the fundamental message of the gospel and I can join with anyone and go anywhere with them. I must have...
...good "assistant," and also a poor one. In the first place, the good assistant knows his subject and can present it to his students in an intelligent way. In the second place, his attitude to his students is friendly. The poor "assistant" very often is so unable to teach that he completely conceals whatever knowledge he has of the subject. He gives the impression of knowing nothing whatsoever about it. He also gives the impression that he is out to "beat" the student in a little game that he wins if he can give the student a low mark...
Thirty-seven professors and instructors, many of them of national reputation, come from other colleges and universities this year to teach in the Summer School. In addition, 80 members of the University teaching staff will serve throughout the summer. Among the outstanding scholars are Professor Hunley W. Herrington, of the University of Syracuse, who will lecture on the Elizabethan Drama and Poets of the Nineteenth Century, and Professor Albert Feuillerat, of the University of Rennes, who is this year Exchange Professor at Yale, who will lecture on the Romantic Poets, and also on Shakespeare's Development as a Dramatic Poet...
...then I'll teach myself to scoff...