Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ripe age of 45 without writing a play. Born in Girgenti, Sicily (1867) as son of a sulphur-mine owner, he wrote five books of poetry before he was 23, took his degree in philosophy at Germany's University of Bonn, and went back to Rome to teach Italian literature to women. After he had published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize one of his stories into a one-act play. With Six Characters in Search of an Author (produced in Rome in 1921) Pirandello leaped into the limelight...
...free-style, 100 yards on first the back and then the side using only the legs, retrieving an object in ten feet of water three times without diving, and swimming 25 yards underwater. The men who complete this will immediately receive instruction so that they will be able to teach those in the senior life saving classes which will begin on Tuesday, April 11. This latter course is open to all men in the University who can pass the same eligibility test and will meet on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3 to 4 o'clock and from...
Although Dean Holmes considers the "Now Plan" far superior to the "Old Plan," he is convinced that even more radical reforms in the admission system must be effected. There is a necessity to correlate the work done in preparatory school with that to be done in college, and to teach in preparatory schools subjects which will be acquired for all time rather than for college board examinations. Harvard, long a pioneer in educational innovations, is in a position to assume the lead in revising admission requirements so as to influence the preparatory schools to give their students a broader preparation...
...written in the heyday of 1929, was slightly rough. His jazz was positively brutal, but there wasn't enough of it to drug his listeners into any sort of acquiescent mood. He is young and has ideas. I wonder if he is quite good for Harvard boys. He might teach them that music belong to life. At least his music does. Los Angeles Times...
...wheel. Not so the inventor of basketball. He is Dr. James A. Naismith, director of the department of physical education at Kansas University. At McGill University he was the best athlete in his class (1887). From McGill Theological Seminary he went to Springfield Y. M. C. A. College to teach. Amos Alonzo-Stagg went there the same year to coach football and Dr. Naismith played centre on Stagg's team. In 1891, he was assigned to design an indoor game for a gymnasium class. He knocked the bottoms out of two peach-baskets, nailed them to the gymnasium wall...