Word: teaching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...professions. The Harvard Law School, with the lengthening of the term to three years, and the introduction of Professor Langdell's case system and Professor Amca' lectures in legal theory, was transformed from a "disgrace to Massachuselia" into the country's outstanding legal institution. The Medical School undertook to teach medicine as a science rather than as the mere art of healing...
...secure eminent teachers and scholars, to influence public opinion toward the advancement of learning, and to have the University accommodate itself promptly to significant changes in the character of the people for whom it exists." His great practical accomplishments were all molded in the light of his desire to teach young men: to teach them the love of learning, the joy of work, and the art of unselfish service. It is fitting that the present generation of Harvard students, who knew not President Eliot, pay tribute on the centennial anniversary of his birth to one who influenced so profoundly...
...befitted her destiny, Maria Bowen Chapin was well born, daughter of a Wickford, R. I. manufacturer. Behind her were a grandfather and great-grandfather who had been Governors of the State. Educated in private schools in Providence, Maria Chapin went to New York in the '90s, began to teach small groups of her friends' children. In 1901, with seven teachers and some 75 pupils, she founded Miss Chapin's School on West 47th Street...
...present probation, could well be done away with, holding a closer check of the probated student's cuts, but abolishing the absolutism of the penalty now enforced. All this would place the full weight of reform on the student's shoulders and permit, if not compel, him to teach himself the regulation of his own time...
Cleveland's schoolmasters marched out resolved to teach such doctrines to their pupils, and proclaim "the imperative need for a substitution of a planned economy for the present economic anarchy...