Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of mothers in Scarsdale, N. Y. last week set out to do something about the radio programs to which their children listen. They had no new kind of program to suggest but they bitterly declared that present programs "shatter nerves, stimulate emotions of horror, and teach bad grammar." They put their case before that great pedagogical clearing house, Teachers College at Columbia University. They got the United Parents Association to put mental hygienists on the subject. They voted, and took votes among their children, on their preferences among radio-broadcasts aired between...
...Boston Perkinses, she was graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1902, went to Lake Forest, Ill. to teach. The writings of Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives') and Lincoln Steffens (The Shame of the Cities) fired her ardor for reform, sent her to Hull House for six months. At Columbia later she did post-graduate work...
Under the present arrangement French 2 undertakes to teach literal translation of plays, rapid reading of classics, French composition, and a history of French literature of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The aims of the course are far too extensive; consequently the material is presented in a haphazard fashion by men who being aware of the weaknesses and elementary character of the course, are not much more anxious to teach than their students to learn. Nor does French 2 prepare a student to do any of the specific reading which may be required of him later in history, government...
...flourish-within certain limits. Its faculty is a representative cross-cut of indigenous academic life. There are a prig and a politician. Small, timid Professor Stockton (E. J. Ballantine) has found that pistol practice and an occasional mild laxative keep his nerve up. Another professor, blessedly resigned, loves to teach, ''even if they don't learn a damned thing." Still another, Elsa Brandt (Katharine Cornell), spiritually writhes in agony in the bondage of the music department. She would give her soul to be a concert pianist...
...This question is of academic interest only, to those of us who teach full time...