Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mentions a movement along which progress has already been made, namely, the granting of permanence to coaching positions. This action can only be commended. It is desirable at all times for the coaches to know that good character coupled with an interest in their work and the ability to teach will result in their continued retention and that the knack to produce winning teams is no longer a criterion in this respect...
...result is that there would be altogether too few men to supply the demand. Only men who wanted to teach from love of it would be available if they had the requirements which this article demands. These are few, considering the number of posts there are to fill. That mediocre men can be developed up to specifications is obviously absurd. Any man who would satisfy the Graduate School of Education would be qualified for the highest position in industry or politics...
...even 150 rubbers will prove anything as to comparative merits, since the result must also depend upon the distribution of the cards, the skill of the players. Both Culbertson and Lenz will get a great deal of advertising, and all bridge teachers will profit by having two systems to teach their pupils. Public interest in the match may also assist contract to withstand the onslaught of back: gammon as a leading indoor sport...
Undenominational, coeducational, Piney Woods has today 300 pupils drawn mainly from the deep Black Belt of Mississippi. They are taught to till the soil on its 1,500 acres of land, to teach in its Normal Department, to master trades, elementary subjects. Principal Jones, 47, a leader in Negro Y. M. C. A. work in Mississippi, member of the National Negro Press Association (executive committee) and the National Negro Business League, has worked hard with his school...
...Fine Arts Department, although it is in many ways superior to others in the University, has neglected one of the important aspects of the subject. It has a tendency to teach art from a purely factual point of view, which is both important and necessary, but which ought not to be the only approach. The fundamental basis of fine arts, the value of it, why one object is more important than another, or why people should study art at all, this part is to a large measure overlooked...