Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sophomore years is an excellent plan, and one essential to a well-rounded education, but such a curriculum cannot be imposed at the expense of interest and initiative. If general courses are to be retained, it must be with instructors who are at once anxious and able to teach and to provoke student thought. Theirs is a task infinitely more complex than that of the school-room lecturer, for they are initiating the student into a world full of contradictions and injustices, and in so doing are giving him a social viewpoint he will carry through Harvard into life...
Holbrook M. MacNeille, Benjamin Pierce Instructor in Mathematics, will teach at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, as au associate professor of Mathematics beginning next fall, Kenyon President Chalmers announced recently...
Since Iran was bent on proving her independence, lean pickings were in store for British advisers, British business. Ships were ordered from Italy and Italian officers were engaged to teach Iranian landlubbers theories of navigation. Barter trade was established with Soviet Russia and German goods began to pour into Iran under a clearing agreement arranged by the wily Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Among the first arrivals were 100 German warplanes for the Iranian air force. Danes. Czechs...
...more necessary is the training of all advisers before they begin to counsel. Full-group sessions should be held in the fall to make each adviser familiar with the curriculum and outside activities, to talk over means of dealing with recurrent problems like discouragement over marks, and especially to teach all how to teach Freshmen to study...
...Twelve per cent of the high-school seniors knew more than the average college senior preparing to go out to teach...