Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deal crowned a 35-year-old dream. Born 65 years ago on a New Jersey farm which had been in his Quaker family since 1683, Mr. Scattergood learned about power at Rutgers (Class of 1893), became a Master of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell, went South to teach at the Georgia School of Technology. But the tuneful libel on Georgia Tech could be applied only to Engineer Scattergood's health, which was so badly wrecked after two years that he had to ramble off to Southern California...
...position which is neither that of a symposium in political philosophy nor a mere trade school for the mechanics of government. It is of great importance that this middle of the road be closely followed. The higher realms of political theory are proper fields for those who intend to teach, but those whose immediate business is the government service have neither the time nor the energy to spare for such studies. On the other hand, the Littauer school cannot fill the shoes ordered for it if it provides nothing more than narrow vocational training. Its business, in the words...
Beveridge Webster was born in Pittsburgh where his father was director of the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Music and taught music analysis for many years. When Beveridge reached five, his father began to teach him piano. At eight, young Beveridge astonished a private audience from the Conservatory by playing, with his mother, a Beethoven sonata for four hands...
Eight events are to be decided in teach class with trial heats to be contested at 2 P. M. and finals at 8 P. M. Afternoon admission will be 25 cents, evening, 40 cents...
...nine Harvard men relies on the schools regularly; two out of three when they wish to cram for examinations. The schools openly boast that they teach certain subjects better than the college. Among their patrous schools join a large number of honors men, and they take credit for raising the college's percentage of honors students from 28.5 per cent in 1930-31 to 41.3 per cent last year...