Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee published its conclusions, The Relation oj Religion to Public Education (American Council on Education; $1). Main thesis, as summed up by George Zook: "Schools should accept religion and the churches as a factor of social life, just as much as they do the waterworks." The committee proposed to teach about religion, but not to teach religion itself, in the schools. For a while the group had considered a proposal to find and teach a set of principles common to all faiths (e.g., some form of Golden Rule), but rejected this as "watered-down" religion acceptable to nobody...
...Department is especially fortunate to have some very promising associate and assistant professors. At present the section men in the Bio Department are only adequate. Most of them are graduate students and not well-acquainted with all areas of Biology; crowded conditions have forced many of them to teach in areas where they are not well prepared...
Semi-professional criticism is offered in the few creative writing courses available, but the courses lack the aid of a creative artist to teach either prose on poetry, although Schwartz and Kempton come closer to the mark than Morrison or Spencer. The chief shortcoming in this field is the limited number of students that can be accomodated in the few courses given...
Applicants must be concentrators in American history, government, literature, sociology, or specialists in American economics, Campbell said. 'They should have broad interests, be able to talk, and have the desire to learn, as well as teach," he added...
...superintendent, F. Robert Wegner, who gave it to them with bells on. Puckish Bob Wegner, 49, a man with shock-white hair and a youthful spirit, had once started a near-rebellion in Roslyn, Long Island, when he set his students to baking nut bread to teach them arithmetic (TIME, March 21, 1938). He went to Los Alamos from the Navy, where, as a lieutenant commander, he had bossed radio and rocket schools...