Word: teach
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...argue it [the case] as if it was serious. . . . The Book of Genesis, written when everybody thought the world was flat . . . religious ignorance and bigotry as any that justified the Spanish Inquisition or the hanging of witches in New England. . . . The State of Tennessee has no more right to teach the Bible as the Divine Book than it has the Koran, the Book of Mormon, the Book of Confucius, the Buddha or the Essays of Emerson. . . . Who is the Chief Mogul that can tell us what the Bible means ? . . . Nothing was ever heard of all that [Christian divisions] until...
...disheartening to learn that Captain Kidd was only an inept revenue agent, but these histories have their compensations. Henry Morgan of Jamaica comes up to scratch as the bellicose gentleman adventurer. No brigand could be more fearsome than Blackbeard Teach, who festooned his ears with braids from his chin and decked his hat with blazing brimstone. Also, there are the two extraordinary prototypes of the bobbed-hair bandit, Pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who successfully combined marauding and maternity. Author Hurd selects a dozen of the sea-rogues, letting a good tale justify its telling. Author Seitz collects...
...James Rowland Angell, president of Yale University, will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, June 14. The annual meeting of Yale in China will be the most important event also to be held on Sunday, with the announcement of the Yale men who have been chosen to teach at the Yale school in China next year...
Pressure of large numbers and the revelations of psychology have been giving us pause as to the underlying theory of American university education as it was accepted in the immediate past. It did not seem possible to teach the crowds of students who pressed at the doors of the universities. Also some have suspected that it may not be worth while to try to teach them all even if it were possible...
President-elect McConaughy's record at Knox: consolidation of the undergraduate body, physical expansion, strengthening of the Classics Department, introduction of courses in Biblical Literature, Social Hygiene, Practical Journalism. Of his strong convictions, one is that a college president should teach classes. What manner of inspiration may be expected by Wesleyan students electing their President's courses next fall, was forecast last week. Said the President-elect: "The honor system is the finest flower of student responsibility. ... [I am] a fan on athletics . . . real preparation for the game of life. . . . [The college's "spiritual tradition...