Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...main aims, the selection of students and the selection of teachers. Its object is to encourage the best students in order that the most able, on entering the school, shall encounter only men of their own calibre. For, as in every institution of learning, the character of the teaching depends as much on the ability of those who learn as on the excellence of those who teach. The second aim, made far more feasible by the growing McKay fund, is to accept as professors only men of real note. Harvard University was the first in America to take up applied...
...fathers and older brothers for ten College generations. How many of us will be able, at three score years and ten, to produce a record so fraught with true human achievement? Professor Palmer's life is an example of quiet, sane, effectiveness. May he live long to teach that life at a time when the tendency is too often toward noise, hurry, and mediocrity...
...China speaking at Harvard said that he was ashamed to find no course in this University on so great a nation, a nation whose inhabitants form nearly one fourth of the population of the globe. There are thousands of Americans who go to China to preach and to teach. But America apparently thinks she has nothing to learn...
Efforts are being made to teach the people to live with more comfort. Along the coast, for example, woolen weaving has been established so that during the winter the women can make clothes, and agricultural stations have been located in the less barren parts of the country where experiments are made. Lumber mills have been established, and several peat bogs have been opened. In a word, the most is being made out of the limited resources of the country...
...needed to coach basketball teams, lead various forms of boys' clubs, teach English, and take evening classes at the various educational centres in Cambridge and Boston. Men who are willing to give a limited amount of time to this work should call between 8 and 11 o'clock at Phillips Brooks House to interview E. D. Smith...