Word: teaching
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...American Mercury and his pay is $19.23 a week, the CWA wage for research workers. Since he is a CWA worker employed not for the pleasure of his sovereign but for the social and economic welfare of the country, Administrator Hopkins detailed him to make poems that would teach English to New York City's immigrants and illiterates. Some of them appear in The American News, a paper published by the Language Research Institute and written entirely in a vocabulary of 900 easy words chosen by Director Elaine Swenson. Some of poet Kugelmass' work in the 900-word...
Rangy, smiling, hard-muscled "Bill" Jardine, 55, started life as an Idaho ranch-hand. At 20 he entered Utah Agricultural College, stayed on to teach, made himself an expert in agronomy. Rated an able administrator, he had been Kansas State Agricultural College's president for seven years when in 1925 President Coolidge called him to Washington to head the Department of Agriculture. There he wrestled long and successfully against McNary-Haugenism. President Hoover sent him to Egypt largely because the Jardine family did not want to go back to Kansas...
Once upon a time Vice President Charles G. Dawes loudly scolded the Senate for its dilatory methods, roundly exhorted it to speed up its work, achieved nothing. Last week Vice President Garner without warning started to teach the Senate some of the hurry-up tricks he had learned as Speaker of the House...
...which it is possible to obtain. Excellent tutoring, like excellent lecturing, should be given great weight in considering a young man for promotion, but by itself it should not be sufficient to insure a permanent career at Harvard." There must be no separation of "our faculty into those who teach and those who carry on creative work. Our strength in the past has lain in the fact that the spirit of scholarship has pervaded our teaching and our scholars have seen the importance of perpetuating the ideals of scholarship as well as advancing knowledge in their own specialty...
...creative work. A zest for intellectual adventure should be the characteristic of every university. In the future as in the past, teachers must be scholars who are extending the frontiers of knowledge in every direction. I hope there will never be a separation of our faculty into those who teach and those who carry on creative work. No line should be drawn between teaching and research. Our strength in the past has lain in the fact that the spirit of scholarship has pervaded our teaching and our scholars have seen the importance of perpetuating the ideals of scholarship as well...