Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persistence of this attitude, it is not surprising I there is little productive research carried on by young Doctors of Philosophy. Nearly all of them would prefer to I teach, than to spend time in tiresome and painstaking solution of historical problems. And the research itself, tedious and exacting though it is, does not tell the whole story of a scholar's task. There is facing the inquirer the orderly and accurate presentation of his acquired facts. Few men today have the patience or the skill in writing to attempt this expository task. In this decline of capable writers lies...
...Boobson--I'll teach...
...perfectly healthy, perfectly efficient. But one can be that and still miss much. Poetry, religion, tradition and poise - do you sufficiently value them? . . . Why, you have hardly let me finish a sentence during my tour before rushing me off to see something else. . . . You are young. Old Europe can teach you spiritual education. . . . "But you have been very kind to me! The hotel keepers learned, for example, about my dislike for warm rooms and adjusted the heat accordingly. You know, I am descended from Queen Victoria, who always sat in a draft, and I so often long for my grandmamma...
...schemes and fancies is that they are always entertaining. The latest concerns education. On this subject Mussolini has firm ideas. He advocates a sort of select school for young Fascisti, with the curriculum based on "science, politics and the art of government." One wonders whether Mussolini proposes to teach the future leaders of Italy to govern as he governs. If so the result will be at least amusing...
...wrong there. Graduates who know the West realize that the stupid toryism which is putting New England on the toboggan industrially, for years with few and short intervals has had its dead hand on Harvard athletics. If intercollegiate sports are a good thing get the men who can teach you to win your share of contests. There is no virtue in any qualification other than the ability to win in a sportsmanlike manner...