Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California legislature is considering five "loyalty oath" bills, and a measure to make it a misdemeanor "to teach any system or plan of government except the American system upon any state school property or to inculcate preference in the mind of any pupil for any such system...
August Leroy Strand is the president of Oregon State College in Corvallis, Oregon. He is an entomologist with some pretty definite ideas about "party liners" and their rights to teach. On January 14, 1949 Strand notified L. R. LaVallee, assistant professor of Economics, that he would not be reappointed. On February 8 he told Ralph Spitzer, associate professor of Chemistry, that he would not receive an appointment for the next academic year...
...graduate school system and thinks that more should be done in England in that direction. Lastly he praises Harvard's "universal passion for music. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven everywhere--wonderful." But Isaiah Berlin is going back to let the hostesses of London tear each other part over him and teach philosophy at Oxford...
...catalogue of callings, ranging from gentleman-farmer and journalist (FORTUNE, 1930-38) to Librarian of Congress (1939-44), Assistant Secretary of State (1944-45) and deputy chairman of the U.S. delegation to UNESCO's first general conference (1946). Though he was not telling what he intends to teach, it seemed a sure bet that he would take on English A5, the traditional Boylston course in creative writing...
...Sociologist Robert S. (Middletown) Lynd: "Until the present year I have held the general position that it is unwise to engage a Catholic or a Communist to teach the social sciences ... I believe that a teacher should not teach with a bit in his teeth controlled by any organization able thereby to control what he teaches and omits from his teaching and with a record of exercising such control . . . Today, anti-communism is actively fostered as a blanket political weapon, and pressure is being brought on educational institutions to dismiss uncritically actual or alleged Communists ... I have accordingly changed...