Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...optimists, that the college graduate does not as a rule display the learning and power which four years of reading, attending lectures, and studying lead one to expect. Some of the shortcomings may be blamed, as the Alumni Bulletin has pointed out, to the failure of preparatory schools to teach methods of study; but some may also be charged to the haphazard nature of most teaching in the University...
...more efficient system of assistants. In most undergraduate courses the professor's lectures are used as a supplementary text-book, while it is the assistant only who comes into immediate contact with the student. It is therefore of the utmost importance that the assistant be competent to teach, with enough time for effective teaching, and with genuine interest in the welfare of his students...
...Paul Withington '09, assistant graduate treasurer of the H. A. A. has received a large nuumber of applications from preparatory schools and colleges for Harvard athletes, who desire an opportunity to coach teams in various sports. There are especially good openings for men who can teach some course in addition to the athletic work. All those who are interested may find Dr. Withington in his office at the H. A. A. any morning between 10 and 12 o'clock...
...their business, of efficient guns, of ammunition to meet the demand, and of an army of efficiently trained soldiers. Without these necessary requisites of a successful military machine, the best of our young men would have to be sacrificed in the early stages of a conflict, in order to teach such blind unbelievers as the CRIMSON that preparedness and militarism are as different as black and white, that efficiency depends upon previous training and experience, of the sort that men will gain at these very camps,--and that we must prepare for circumstances, unthought of now, which may arise...
...grant the charge of idealism; but think it preferable to the "vice of looking backwards." History may teach that war has always been; but the present war is teaching with a bitterness that must lead to action the impotence of war, the need for taking long delayed and tremendous strides forward...