Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game is much cleaner than it used to be. There were fewer officials and fewer rules concerning roughness. Coaches were forced to teach their players 'dirty football' so that they would know how to combat it when an opponent resorted to slugging and kicking. It was a case of self-protection, and, if you failed to protect yourself, you would be incapacitated in a surprisingly short time. I had my nose broken in the first game of every season, and it wasn't because of an accident either. I played half one season with three broken ribs and finished...
...them all to the same regimen, to a regimen that is cramping, often pedantic, and usually unadjusted to the demands of the modern world. Its state is especially grave because the degree it gives has become a touchstone for academic advancement, an economic necessity for anyone who wishes to teach. Hence the minds of students all over the country are entrusted to men who, if not actually given false standards by the Ph.D. training, have at least gotten nothing from it but a mass of unleavened erudition. It is not only an unreasonable and exacting anachronism in itself...
...statement has often been justly made that language courses fail to give a student a sufficiently up-to-date knowledge of a tongue. All such a course does is teach grammar, prescribe a number of books, and include some conversation in the daily lesson. Of course, the grammar taught is standard and the books read are classics. The argument is that if one is to learn a language, he might as well know it in its perfect form. However, this method of teaching deprives the student of much of the color and life of a language. The classical prose...
...There is no doubt that it is the best military school in the world, but it is a broadening experience for an officer to teach in a large college, because it gives him a side of school life that they do not receive as a cadet...
...plain speaking man, courageous in all his intellectual and personal relations, tart when tartness was due and effective. Examples are only too copious; "What are we teachers of Greek going to do if Greek is no longer required?" asked a colleague. "Do?" retorted Sumner. "Learn something else and teach it. I've had to do that, twice in my life." Or again, mordantly, to the class, "In the colonies, during inflation, you might see creditors fleeing madly from debtors who were chasing them to pay them with bushel-basket fuels of dirty paper."... Most famous of all, perhaps...