Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teacher in Harvard...
...first American Zither Congress was held in 1912 in Washington, Mo., home of the Franz Schwarzer Zither Co., largest U. S. zither makers. Young folk are apt to think the homely zither "corny." President Leonard Zapf, Philadelphia music dealer and teacher, taught his son Karl Tom to play, heard him acclaimed a genius at the 1926 Congress. But Karl Tom deserted the zither, took to music teaching...
...things, however, he believes cannot be taught: "You can't teach a back to be as shifty as you want him or a lineman to be as fierce as you want him." Above all things Teacher Wade values economy of motion: "The best player is the one who does just what is necessary...
...builders had a name exciting to all architects and designers: the New Bauhaus (Building House). Its right to that title was as clear as the glass with which its students will be taught to build, because its director was fresh-faced, ingenious Hungarian Designer Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy, a teacher and leading spirit of the famed Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, and its chief adviser was Professor Walter Gropius of Harvard, founder of the old Bauhaus and its director until...
President Gates also gained attention for the university with the Gates plan for de-emphasizing varsity athletics (by employing only teacher-coaches and encouraging intramural sports), enforcement of a rule against drinking in fraternity houses, Penn sponsorship of the "Cultural Olympics" to pick the U. S. champions in music, arts & crafts, literature, drama, the dance...