Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good atheists: not by a man with a religion of his own. Shelley's didactiveness compares unfavorably with Dante's for that reason. Dante assumes that we accept the scheme of the Catholic Church; Shelley tries to convince us of the scheme itself. The poet cannot afford to teach; he is quite at liberty to expound ideas, so long as they aren't his own ideas, for then there is a chance that he will make poetry...
...will have a ten-week season. To prepare for it he opened an opera chorus school, the only one in the U. S. outside New York. He appointed Adolph Bolm who used to dance with the Diaghilev Ballet to start ballet classes. Said Signor Merola: "We are going to teach in our school everything that has to do with the lyric stage. . . . We have 5,000 operagoers here in San Francisco. They have 20,000 in New York-possibly 80,000 in the whole country. What is that in a population of 120,000,000? We are going...
...greatest benefactors of the Fogg Museum and connected with the Boston Museum of Art. Dr. Ross, well known in his profession, is endeavoring, through a private venture, to teach art by his new theory, known as the setpallette method. This consists basically of producing the natural colonization of a painting by using only certain colors, limited in both number and variety. These oils on exhibit consist mainly of portraits and figure studies...
...President in his reports for 1930-31 has recognized the existence of three classes among the men of the Graduate School: those seeking an M.A. degree to permit them to teach in a secondary school; those wishing to do further research before starting industrial work; and those training for a teaching position in a college. The members of the first and second classes far outnumber the third and tend to retard the people trying to get ahead scholastically. President Lowell's action in establishing the Society of Fellows is in part an effort toward freeing these especially gifted men from...
...hole medal play for a guaranteed net $1,300 purse will be held next week in which experts who like the idea of the new cup will have a chance to try it. One entrant will be Wild Bill Mehlhorn, famed professional who last year gave up golf to teach bridge because his bad putting prevented him from winning prizes...