Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though referring specifically to the theory of evolution, the report sets forth the general principle that professors must have the right to teach the truth as they see it, regardless of the opinions or beliefs of any group. In a number of colleges, professors of biology have been dismissed for advancing evolutionary doctrines. Several states have passed laws forbidding the teaching of evolution in the schools. In brief, "public opinion in several quarters of the United States is considerably less enlightened than had commonly been supposed...
...would think that the gentle tide of ridicule which undermined the labors of Commissioner Hirshfield of New York some months ago would teach all subsequent fools to watch their steps when they seek to purify the wells of American history. Not so. The latest worker for the cause of 1776 percent Americanism is Representative O'Brien, of Dorchester, who has filed a bill in the House to prohibit the hellish poison of falsification from polluting the teaching of the history of the United States...
Profession. "Considering business as a profession, where will you find a better professor to teach that profession than Mr. Baker...
George Bellows never studied in Europe. He was born in Ohio, studied art in Manhattan under Robert Henri. That artist once said of him: "I can't teach this boy anything; he knows by instinct all that it has taken me years to learn...
...Political science should teach a better social control in colleges as well as in cities...