Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handled his wording in remarkably clear fashion and supplemented with a number of line sketches, illustrating the essential features of all the well-known stops and turns. He has taken the same stand as Schnieder in declaring that he defends no particular technique. The little book was written to teach the fundamentals of practical skiing, and, in the way that Mr. Proctor describes the various styles, it is clear that he is a master-hand at all of them. His book should come as a boon to all ski-runners who still think that they have room for improvement...
...project since 1920. Because Teachers College is for Ph.D. and M.A.-seekers. New College will be strictly undergraduate, limited at its opening to 90 students (male & female) in each of the two entering classes (freshman and junior). While New College students are busy taking academic courses and learning to teach, students from Teachers College will observe and try a hand at teaching them. Later, New College students will try their hands at teaching, spend a year's interneship in a public or private school before being given a B.S. degree...
...legalized abortions. Operations are performed openly in hospitals by expert technicians. Russia's maternal mortality is now definitely lower. ¶Very few doctors can escape being begged to perform abortions some time during their careers. Many furtively accommodate the suppliants. But their technique is unsure. Medical schools should teach their students just how best to do an abortion, whether or not they intend to use the knowledge...
...carnival operator. The carnival operator left him at the Oregon State Fair. Two months ago the fair board sold him to Elephant Trainers Bayard Gray and Jack O'Grady for his board bill ($200). Messrs. Gray & O'Grady kept him in a barn in Portland, tried to teach him manners. Last month he had a cold, drank a potion reported to contain ten gallons of moonshine whiskey, got the hiccups and more publicity. Last week he was in the newspapers again...
...arte, the drama hat set the patterns for Harlequin, Columbine, Pierrot and Pantaloon, is a favorite subject for romantic poets, water color painters, and lecturers on The Drama. They are apt to forget that there exists in the U. S. a lusty native parallel of the commedia to teach esthetes what a real old Harlequinade was like: the Burlesque Show. Like the commedia before the days of the great Debureau, Burlesque is vulgar entertainment catering to the masses, often frankly obscene. Like the commedia, Burlesque is based on "bits" that have been handed down from one troupe to the next...