Word: teach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue has been raised," cried the speaker. "The country is looking at what we do in the next half-hour." The issue-whether Communists should be allowed to teach-was far & away the nation's knottiest academic problem. In Boston last week at its annual convention, the powerful National Education Association (825,000 state and national members) took its stand...
...enjoyed by others which it wished to share; but this is not so today. The leaders of the rising class are consumed with a contempt for everything which does not spring from their own desires, they are convinced in advance that they have nothing to learn and everything to teach, and consequently their aim is loot-to appropriate to themselves the organization, the shell of the institution, and convert it to their own purposes. The problem of the universities today is how to avoid destruction at the hands of men who have no use for their characteristic virtues...
...University of California's Waldemar Christian Westergaard, 67, authority on Scandinavian history (Denmark and Slesvig, 1848-1864; The First Triple Alliance). Plump, pleasant Professor Westergaard long ago gave up classroom seminars ("hard seats don't mean hard heads"), preferred to teach in his own library, smoking a four-foot-long Danish pipe...
...Lutheran pastors would be allowed to officiate at weddings (only Lutherans, Methodists, Jews and Roman Catholics may now do so). ¶Permission to establish Catholic convents and monasteries in Sweden, denied since 1595, would once again be granted. ¶Teachers of all Christian denominations would be allowed to teach in all school levels (non-Lutherans are now barred from teaching in elementary schools). ¶Non-Lutherans would have to pay only one-half of their present national church tax (under the present law, most Swedes must contribute about 1% of their income to help support the state church). ¶Nonmembers...
...since anyone who had kicked in for campaign funds, poured drinks for the right people or done the countless other things that made for influence in Washington, was equipped to be a five-percenter. But if the investigation should eliminate just a few of the five-percenters, and teach Government officials to steer clear of the influence boys, it would do a service not only to taxpayers but also to businessmen...