Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...considered degrading, but the women are the toilers. Standing in a community is measured by the number of wives which a man has. An ordinary person has about five, while the more influential members possess about thirty. Mr. Cele is well fitted to conduct a trade school to teach the Africans, having taken courses in blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, carpentry, upholstery, shoemaking, painting and agriculture at Hampton Institute. The trouble with many missionaries who have gone to Africa has been that they have had no practical experience in actual work, being only fitted to train the minds of the Africans...
...have been divided into six districts, including in all 35 settlement houses, each district supervised by one responsible man. In each settlement house there are about five boys clubs, led by college men. It is the duty of these club leaders to read to the boys, talk to them, teach them games, and generally to lead their meetings. The principle kept in mind is that no boy is born bad nor wants to be bad, and once shown that fair play and manliness is what his respected older brother" wants, he will follow that lead...
...whole and individually, and this year's situation and men are compared with those of former years. The commenter says: "One would suppose that the bitter lessons of 1897, 1899, and 1910 would not so easily have been forgotten, but there is every indication that these experiences did not teach wisdom. In those years, as now, it was too easily forgotten that a team which is developed slowly may not make so good an appearance in the early games, but is sure toward the end of the season to advance with greater rapidity than a veteran team, unconsciously let down...
...different way; namely, by putting together men who have the common ground of certain other courses. There will be four sections of men who are taking Government I, three sections of men taking Philosophy one for History I, and one for Classics. Without in the least attempting to teach these subjects, English A will, whenever it seems feasible, try in assigning themes and readings, and in various other ways, to use the common ground of these other studies. Thus the men working more or less together in their courses may be approached as a common body with mutual interests...
...business has attracted more than twice as many Seniors as any other occupation. Seventy-eight of the class of 1913 at present intend to engage in business operations as their life occupation, while law with the next highest total has forty-two men. Thirty-four men propose to teach and twenty-six will go into engineering. Sixteen men have elected banking, fifteen chemistry and fourteen aspire to become physicians. Eleven Seniors will engage in manufacturing, ten will be farmers and ten will be ministers. Study, architecture, journalism, diplomacy, forestry, mining, the army, social service, politics and literature are all among...