Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Methodists convened at Manhattan were less calm, more specific, about a similar situation in their own Asiatic mission field. Speaking before the Men's Methodist Council, Religious Dean Edmund D. Soper, Duke University, waxed satirical, pessimistic. Said he: "China, Japan, India wonder why we who would teach them have slaughtered each other in thousands, why we refuse to hold all races equal in our countries, why we will not hear both sides of questions. . . . We ask ourselves what is next, and we have no next. We have shot our bolt...
...difficulty faced by American graduate schools is a very real one. The smaller college have felt it necessary to insist upon advanced degrees for members of their teaching staff and this has been very useful in raising the whole standard of our teaching, but men who are preparing to teach would really profit, but a somewhat different training from those who are planning to go in for productive scholarship...
...Graduate courses generally are now so shaped as to meet the requirements of the scholar but unfortunately these course are swamped by those who plan to be teachers. While knowledge of the methods of research is essential to those who are to teach, it is by no means true that these students should pursue the intensive research courses established primarily for future workers in research...
...have played it for years are annoyed at having to let newcomers-the "mushroom" ministers-participate. Least of all are they pleased to admit Sam Raingo. His wealth and his familiarity with Andy Clyth are against him. Andy having been obliged to bring Sam into the game, would not teach him the rules even if he could afford to politically...
...reduce this to its simplest form one must state: that Mr. Aswell wants a college or university to give a student from its lecture platforms a working basis for his life work. He distinguishes a vocational school from a university by just that fact: a vocational school need not teach philosophy...