Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assistant director of Babies Hospital's Normal Child Development Clinic, affiliated with the Neurological Institute. Dr. Frederick Tilney, Neurological Institute chief, thinks that civilized parents coddle their infants too long, that a child should be taught initiative and self-confidence from his earliest weeks. Dr. McGraw began to teach Johnny exercises on his 20th day. She showed him how to sit up, walk, creep. For a while he did not learn very well, but when he reached the creeping stage he began to pick up his athletic tricks rapidly. To demonstrate the validity of this thesis Dr. McGraw...
...their counting houses were all shut up and they were called "money changers in the Temple" by the President of the U. S., they were assembling to consider the effects on banking of the New Deal and the national recovery program. Missionaries of Franklin Roosevelt were on hand to teach them: 1) what the Administration wants. 2) to like it. Big request of the Administration was freer lending in order to furnish industry the money to carry out the recovery program. By buying Government bonds the Federal Reserve has been building up excess reserves in banks, trying to encourage them...
Major General Johnson Hagood, commander of the Omaha area, to command the 8th Corps Area (San Antonio). He is small, young-looking, cerebral, likes golf and bridge. Critical, deep-thinking (he used to teach philosophy at West Point), he startled the War Department last April by announcing before the House Military Affairs Committee that the Army was too complex and top-heavy, that the War Department should be demilitarized and given the status of a civil bureau...
...Lowell was among the first to expect him to make them. It is practically taken for granted that he will stand a few customs or even departments on their heads. But the point is that he has not by any means been picked by a few zealous reformers to teach Harvard a blue eagle-like loop-the-loop, but has been selected, as it were, almost by Lowell himself to keep alive Harvard's cherished "tradition of change." With such a tradition firmly entrenched, it is inconceivable that any sensational reform should take place, or one which would not have...
...university, to fill the null position. Fiscal Commissioner Colt, dapper, popular, brainy, is a Republican. His appointment gave evidence that Democratic Governor Moore was sharply avoiding politics in public expenditures. Son of a Kansas City minister, "Dictator" Colt studied at Princeton, served with the A. E. F., returned to teach at Princeton. He married Eleanor Boyd, sister of Author James Boyd (Drums}. In 1928 he joined Princeton Bank & Trust Co., soon became its president. Since last March he has been Director of State Emergency Relief...