Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only requirement for use of the stream is a State fishing license. Women who are squeamish about handling worms will not be sorry that fly fishing alone is permitted. On hand to teach them the art is a State warden of their own sex. She is Edith A. Stoeher, 27, a husky, genial sportswoman who breeds English setters on her farm near South Wethersfield, likes to hunt, fish, trapshoot. Last fortnight, in a field test with four other applicants for the job, she proved her skill with rod & reel, her knowledge of flies, knots, trout. Publisher Beck expects...
...problem was now to determine how, as well as what, to teach. The lecture system was first adopted for the young school, but within a year the Langdell case system was accepted. The ideal was to establish business as a profession, therefore a degree was given...
...dean of American business" said he "lost interest" when asked to give the first million. Instead he donated the complete amount. Dedication of the beautiful now buildings took place on June 4, 1927. Thus, in a quarter of a century, a flourishing school had sprung into existence, to teach, as President Lowell describes it, "the oldest of the arts, but the newest of the professions...
...their depend ents. At Army camps they were issued: O. D. (olive drab) woolen trousers, O. D. flannel shirts, work trousers, underclothes, socks, shoes, raincoat, jumpers, work hat, cravat, belt, barracks bag, two O. D. blankets, mess kit. For two weeks the Army was to condition them, teach them the rudiments of camp life. As civilians they were not to be put through military drills. When sufficiently toughened, units of 20 to 100 were to be shipped to National Forests where they will plant trees, clear brush, work roads, build fire controls and fight insect pests. The U. S. Forest...
...sentenced to grey-walled Clinton Prison at Dannemora, N. Y. for robbery, he was a sign-painter. Instead of planning a jailbreak, Convict Curtis found his escape on canvas, painting in the barred funnel of light in his cell. Last year the warden gave him a studio to teach other convicts his idea of escape (TIME...