Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first applied at Harvard, rigorous training has been a permanent feature in rowing. There was a time, indeed, when the squad trained throughout the year, working on the machines and running five or six miles on alternate days in the winter time. It undoubtedly requires time and equipment to teach men to row correctly. But to relax emphasis upon form and the finer points of the sport would call forth a storm of protest from three generations of Harvard oarsmen and from innumerable college men who believe in doing things well...
Dean L. B. Moss '15 or the University of Nanking is now at Harvard to find three-men to teach in China. One man is needed to teach English in the Junior College, and two for the School of Education, which offers unusual opportunities...
...here's hoping it does--the faculties of the Dixie institutions of learning could not do better than make attendance on the Harvard games obligatory. The lesson would be far more valuable than hours spent wresting with Greek verbs, mathematical problems, or whatever else the faculties are supposed to teach...
...purpose --if there was a purpose--might possibly have been to stimulate students to more conscientious work; but the undergraduate is often discouraged rather than aroused by what he considers an honest indication of poor scholastic worth. Inasmuch as it is the aim of the college course to teach, the outsider must regard an excessive number of failures as evidence either that the standard of grading is too high or the instruction very inefficient...
...Seniors who have not made their plans for the first year after leaving college, men who have any athletic ability or interests and scholarship enough to warrant them in undertaking to teach others, are urged to consult the Appointment Office. Headmasters of boarding schools are often ready to consider inexperienced teachers. Salaries at these schools range from $1000 to $1200 in the first year, besides all living expenses. Boarding Schools are in need of men who can lead boys, even if these men may be retained only a year or two. These young teachers are able to save a large...