Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty thoroughly spoiled. But "he was a dear when he was sober. . . . When he was not spree-drinking he often led a most exemplary life; he loved to play with horses and dogs, and concerning golf he became, eventually, so keen that he hired a leading professional to teach him." So, after being engaged on & off many times, Evalyn finally eloped with him. Their grinning fathers gave them $100,000 each for a wedding trip, and their blessing...
...oath law, who was booted out of his job last autumn with the approval of Governor James Michael Curley. With but three dissenting votes, the cheering, clapping convention voted to condemn Villain Curley. Condemned also was the Federal statute forbidding teachers in District of Columbia schools to ''teach or advocate Communism...
Martha Graham became a leading Denishawn dancer, a Denishawn teacher. Still she felt frustrated, broke from the California studio to teach at Rochester's Eastman School of Music, left Rochester determined to free-lance her way no matter what the odds. The way at first was vague. She had had no contact with Laban or Wigman. Yet she felt the same urge to escape from pretty dancing. Striving for a vital, spontaneous expression, she took to lunging and prancing, projected a sincerity almost severe. In 1926 with $11 to her name she gambled on her first Manhattan recital. Chronically...
President Conant has already shown how the oath interferes with a professor's right to teach what he thinks, but the oath concerns the student almost as vitally as the instructor. No one has sufficiently taken the side of the man who pays for an education in order to learn about the world as it is, and not the adulterated truth as political parties may conceive it. Because it shackles the minds of the faculty, an oath law lessens the value of college training...
...teacher's "duty is to teach the truth as he sees...