Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individually taken into the Masters' gild, "with kiss, ring, and book." The Puritans who founded Harvard left out the kiss and the ring, but until the last century every candidate at Harvard placed his hand on some "book of Artes" as a sign that he was now competent to teach the subjects that he had lately studied...
...first reaction was elation. The papers said that the Anglo-Saxons had stirred up a hornet's nest. Their spearhead would be broken and the Wehrmacht would be free at last to teach the Russians the futility of further efforts to advance. The fond dream of a negotiated peace began to come alive. Quislings sent brave greetings to the Fiihrer-duly published- and the people recalled the devastating powers of mysterious secret weapons...
...operation in 1940, its importunate finger has tapped many an illiterate recruit. During the first three years 240,000 such registrants were promptly waved off-more men lost to the Army than the total of battle casualties so far. Not until June 1943 did the Army take steps to teach its illiterates the three Rs. Since then approximately 90% of illiterate registrants have been salvaged for the Army, and many a reject has been reclassified. G.I. schools have become commonplace...
...Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to the United States and outstanding philosopher and historian, will teach the history of Chinese thought, from 700 B.C. to the present, for two terms, beginning next November. Formerly professor of Chinese Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the National University of Peiping, Dr. Shin is recognized as the leading figure in the Chinese literary renaissance...
...lessons a year, parents can put children through eight elementary grades in six years. Parents get their teacher-training from Calvert manuals, which are almost parent-proof. Though some find pedagogy tough going, most of their pupils do very well. Mothers with kindergarten children get instructions on how to teach, play games, punish, tell stories, test intelligence, deal with lefthandedness, lying, disobedience, sex problems, how to develop morals, neatness, courtesy, concentration, imagination. Sample instruction: "Obedience ... is the first requisite for ... proper instruction . . . the first habit to be inculcated. . . . Both willingness and ability [to obey] may be made a habit...