Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under its fourth president: "The ideal college is one with Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other." But last week more than 1,226 students were crowded into neocolonial quarters built for a peacetime total of 820. For the duration, Williams will teach aviation cadets and apprentice seamen almost exclusively...
Block's chief job at present-aside from pointing up the patter of visiting entertainers-is doing the script for Yankee Doodle Doo, a radio show starring Vic Oliver, Winston Churchill's son-in-law. The program goes out to U.S. and British troops, hopefully designed to teach them each other's slang, humor, point of view...
Chief current Yale expert is greying, tweedy Professor Leonard Bloomfield, who riles old-fashioned language teachers a good deal. Some think that if they could teach soldiers (who take their lessons seriously) 15 hours a week they could produce speakers as fast as do linguisti-cians. Some say that if the aim is to train men to handle literature, the old grammar-ridden methods are superior. Bloomfield answers with a sharp no. He puts all his chips on learning to speak first, even if the eventual aim is to read...
...face of the grim Ben. Stephens when he lost a shoo in radio engineering and called his stockinged foot while leaning on the aft bulkhead of Langdell (he couldn't double talk his way out of that one)...the spectacle of the artistic Bernie lange trying to teach his roommates the involved wigglings of the rhumba...the worried expression on A. J. Gregory's face as he stood anchored in formation while a squadron of fire trucks rumbled and clanged around the Yard, stopped in front of Stoughton and shot a ladder up to the vicinity of his billet...
...Japanese. "We intend to teach the Japanese, who have not been defeated in modern history, that they can be defeated. . . . We intend to demonstrate to them that [their Emperor's] policies are not evolved in the remote stillnesses of Heaven but in the councils of palace sycophants and ambitious generals; and that they are founded on error and bring disaster...