Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper cup. Yeah, a paper cup. Steady. Whoops! There, easy as anything. Look out. That's too bad. Lucky you got on the old topcoat, Bill. Sure, that'll come out all right. If it doesn't take it over to the Chem lab. Sure they will. They teach you how in Chem A. Ever take that, Bill? Yes, over in Boylston. When we were Freshmen. We used to make salt, too. Twenty-five grams impure they gave you. No, they don't test your stuff. I got nine grams yield and the rest from the Dining Halls. B plus...
...archives of the State Department) ; a large silver bowl and candlesticks presented by Lady Howard on behalf of the Diplomatic Corps, as wedding gifts for John Coolidge and Florence Trumbull; a check for $100,000 contributed to the endowment of Clarke School for the Deaf (where she used to teach); her ginger-colored chow, Tiny...
Despite the many cynical impressions that are prevalent concerning the ability of a college to teach the application of theory, the fact remains that there is no other place where there can be acquired such a true perspective of events in the light of speculative thought. The university man is one of the few who can formulate ideas without having the question of earning a living predominating his ideas. On the other hand, the objection that the college is merely a catalogue of theories, is disproved by this Princeton plan, for it proposes an appeal to actual conditions...
...Close to the Coolidge heart is the endeavor of the Clarke School for the Deaf, where Grace Goodhue used to teach, to raise a $2,000,000 endowment (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week, some $400,000 was still unsubscribed. The President authorized the Goodspeed Book Shop of Boston to put on public sale copies of the Calvin Coolidge book plate, at $5 each, all proceeds to go to the Clarke fund. The book plate, a postcard-size woodcut by Timothy Cole, pictures the Plymouth, Vt., birthplace nestling among trees, two expectant white collies on the grass, a ready fishing pole...
...have thought of all kinds of useful things that Vivian could do. She could organize a Missionary Expedition into the interior of Africa to teach the Monkeys sanitation and hygiene. She might help her father publish a paper on the cure of infantile paralysis. (Just buy a monkey and never handle him with gloves or "fub" him and you will know how to take care of that dread disease...