Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their full share in promoting the scheme. The memorial proposed is to be erected in Cambridge; the project is backed by the names of many of Harvard's most eminent graduates and professors, and finally Mr. Longfellow was at one time formally connected with the college as a teacher. We have no doubt the appeal will meet with a ready response from Harvard's present undergraduates...
Great heavens! thought I; "at home in intellectual society;" for the G. W. is a music teacher now and boards on Columbus avenue...
...development of biological teaching at the University of Cambridge has been rapid and successful. One branch of it, that of animal morphology, has been created there by Mr. F. M. Balfour, and it has grown to its present importance through his ability as a teacher and his scientific reputation. It has been urgently represented to the council that the welfare of biological studies at Cambridge demands that Mr. Balfour's department should be placed on a recognized and less precarious footing, and in this view the council concur. They accordingly recommend that there shall be established in the university...
Hearing recitations, Colonel Parker says, is not teaching, by any means. Teaching is the bringing of new ideas into the mind through objects, classifying ideas, comparing them, and combining them into new creatures of the imagination. Rote learning is simply inculcating stupidity, both in pupil and teacher. It will be a happy day for the public schools when all teachers are made to understand these plain truths...
...such a continuous and severe strain dangerous? Undoubtedly it is, according to several authorities, who say that there is danger of a man's severely straining himself during a continuous pull of ten minutes. This is especially the case with young boys, so much so, that one teacher of gymnastics in Boston will not allow a pull of over three minutes. A proposition was made that each tug-of-war in our coming meetings should consist of three pulls of five minutes each with a slight interval between, but this was considered impracticable, as the seats would have...