Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grew so wise that the Great Father (head god) in a fit of jealousy cursed them to infecundity. But gods thrive on the fear and flattery of mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient man for their entertainment, molded him of refuse. The dying Satyrs tried in vain to teach their lore to this tribe of puny and hornless creatures. But the earth-crawlers spent their happy, ignorant days in pleasant dalliance-not only with fair fellow mortals, but with the immortals who often condescended. Thereupon utter confusion arose as to who was half-god, who three-quarters...
...Harvard should win, Yale has an obvious alibi. Harvard employs seven Full Professors to teach English to undergraduates; Yale has only five...
Fortunately, Lieut.-Commander P. V. H. Weems, U. S. N., is a good-humored fellow of wit, charm and a grin. Fortunately, because he has been chosen to teach the difficult science of navigation to the one man who by reputation and instinct apparently knows plenty about it: Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...finish in such a course. To begin with, no man, if he has not the native common sense necessary to let him work with his associates, will learn how to do so in the lecture room. If it is a question of youthful overconfidence in business, experience alone can teach the true valuation. If not, then there is no course possible aside from a course of hard knocks which will drive the conceit from the budding business...
...best possible instructor in team work. For years the worth of sports has long been argued to lie in the team spirit so valuable in later years which they give the youth for a heritage. Certainly an hour of rowing on the basin in rough weather will teach far more than the drone of a lecturer's voice over an equal stretch of time. It seems unfortunate that an adidtional burden should be added to a curriculum already as crowded as that of any college when the purpose of the course is already fulfilled by sports which need only such...