Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Course in salesmanship. Intended to teach subjects necessary to train a man in successful salesmanship. A one-year course to be given during the day, independent of the day session of the College of Business Administration. Half the day will be spent in class, and half in practical work in business, either in stores or in manufacturing establishments. Open to men and women eighteen years of age, or over...
...School covers sixteen weeks, from elementary subjects to the operation of the complicated apparatus used on the large battleships. A force of forty instructors in necessary to teach the code and theory classes, and the work takes up most of the time between the hours of 8 and 5 o'clock. The School now possesses its own "Colors," the presentation of which was made at the review Wednesday. They were given by James A. Parker '91, and the presentation was made by Miss Rush, the daughter of the Commandant of this district...
...great fault, however, these chronic iconoclasts overlooked. The main business of colleges is teaching; not teaching; this or teaching that, but simply teaching. The colleges ask what is to be taught, and having been informed, they get the best men to be had in the world and teach as no other force can do. And so when war became upper-most in the minds of the American people, the colleges took up their torches to proceed in that direction. It was a new subject, but the business of teaching was as old as the hills. They immediately sought those...
...reserve officers' training corps was established which sent over 600 men well grounded in military elements to secure commissions at government training camps. Many other branches of service likewise drew from this source to increase their number of skilled laborers. Harvard only needed to be told what to teach and did the best that could be done...
...here, however willing were those young men, and however great was the need of training, they had been relegated to the less exciting and less glorious post of war. Yet with large vision and broad sympathy they saw the needs and the possibilities of the lessons which they might teach, and have worked without rest in the teaching...