Word: teach
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Twenty hours of drill are taken with each yearly dose of Military Science. This drill period is supposed to teach the practical handling of field artillery and, in addition, to instill vague qualities of "leadership and discipline." Twenty hours is an extremely short time in which to teach a single subject, yet the R.O.T.C. instructors have assigned to this period a dozen complicated and lengthy activities. The result is pitiful dabbling in each and success in none...
...department of military science should concentrate on only the major subjects of its present course and teach these fundamentals as thoroughly and as completely as possible. Every effort should be made to keep the course right up to date in the latest methods of warfare. Poison gas protection with reference to big cities should be carefully studied, defense agaisnt aerial attack and long range guns should also be included, as well as the military administration of hygienic measures against mass bacterial infection. Military Science should be studied with the future in view instead of the past...
...miles from St. Francisville. in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, there is an imposing, three-story plantation house called Oakley, built in 1810 by James Pirrie and still inhabited by his descendants. There, in the summer of 1821, a 35-year-old wandering painter named John James Audubon arrived to teach French and painting to 16-year-old Eliza Pirrie. It was almost his first good fortune. He got $60 a month, had his afternoons free, could study to his heart's content the varied bird life of West Feliciana...
...great need, as any corrector of examinations will assert with great fervour, is to teach students to organize ideas, to write with reasonable lucidity. Reading, of course, is necessary, but it should be strictly subordinated to composition. In the first semester in particular, it would be helpful to read fine models, such, for example, a chapter in Travelyan's "History of England", do a little correlated reading in the library, and then rewrite a chapter, not with the intention of aping the style, but with an eye to clear, precise, and thoroughly readable presentation of facts...
Died. Thomas Jefferson Foster, 93, founder of the International Correspondence Schools ("We Teach the World") ; in Scranton...