Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Muhlberg of Cincinnati, a former instructor at Harvard, has recently declared that "it is not too soon to begin educating people who want to drink in the art of using alcoholic beverages." He stresses the fact that mothers should teach their children temperance and should practice it as well. This seems to imply that even modern mothers are ignorant in this art; and if they are ignorant, it follows that no one can be excluded from this category, not even Dr. Muhlberg...
...name applied to a woman's college last year. "Cooperation is one of the largest lessons one can get from colleges," thus spoke Miss Marguerite Kimball, president of the Alumnae association before two generations of Radcliffians. From this point of view--the idea that a college must teach the student cooperation, that one should beware developing a selfish attitude and a lack of interest in all things not strictly scholastic--this suggests the words "personality factory...
Courses offered at any college are not made to aid the doting father in his aspirations for his offspring. A "personality factory" must suffer the fate of "spinster factory." Should we perhaps advocate an institution to teach girls to sit gracefully by the fire--alone and another, to develop charm--for father? Radcliffe News-Daily...
...teachers in all our public schools-more particularly our high schools-first learn grammar, then teach it; and they will not have to lower the nation's standards in order to justify their own "better middle class" speech...
...barge line fails to figure in its cost such items as attorney's fees, printing, franking, depreciation and the expense of operating the dams and locks it uses. If people knew the facts, they'd demand prosecution. I don't know how much bookkeeping they teach at West Point but they teach obeying orders. If General Ashburn is told to make the lines pay, he shows the lines are paying. His reports are neither a credit to him nor to the Secretary of War who accepts them. The state-merit that the lines pay taxes...