Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toronto (11,000). In the past year U.B.C. added law courses to its curriculum, won a pledge of $5,000,000 for new buildings from Provincial Premier John Hart, announced that it would offer first-year courses in medicine and pharmacy in September. It was also making plans to teach dentistry, optometry, music, dramatics, physical education, possibly journalism. In noncultural fields it was soaring, too. The Thunderbird basketball team (sometimes called the "Blunder-thirds' ) had surprised everybody by trouncing some crack U.S. college teams...
...have been classed as a rather risky chance-taking person, and I venture to make a suggestion. Why doesn't Dr. Marsh, and the president of every great university in the world, teach his people to put people in my profession permanently...
Most of Professor Cole's 17-odd years of teaching have been spent at Amherst and Columbia. He is LIFE'S adviser on history. At Columbia for a time he helped teach the famed course in Contemporary Civilization, which Columbia proudly considers the daddy of all the new style "integrated" courses...
...first 100% literate village, but others were on the way. In Tecuexcomac, 300 villagers get up at 4 every morning to attend reading & writing classes. In El Palmito, like many of his classmates, nine-year-old Schoolboy José Rojas hurries off each day after school to teach the two Rs to a 54-year-old day laborer...
Less cooperative Mexicans, who didn't want to teach and could afford not to, were allowed to buy their way out by contributing to "literacy centers." By last week 45,000 centers were teaching from 25 to 40 illiterates apiece. By March 1, every Mexican must carry a card showing that he has either learned or taught, or contributed to a center. Illiteracy itself will be a crime...