Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next war, militarists agree, will be a war of gas. It will be waged on civilians as well as soldiers. The French, a practical people, realize this, yet they have done little to teach their civilians a defense against poison gas. This failure the French Congress of Hygiene, which met at the Paris Pasteur Institute last week, sought to remedy. Poland, Germany, Russia and Italy teach their people gas protection. The Congress advised the French Government to imitate and enlarge the methods...
...Vagabond's hope that Harvard will avail herself of these opportunities for she can both teach much and learn much. Texas lies on the Gulf of Mexico and Massachusetts stares off at the Atlantic, but they are connected by those American traditions which went winding west in covered wagons...
Labor's Gompers remained at heart a piecework cigar maker to the end. As industry grew more specialized, Gompers merely grew older, stodgier. He refused to see that it does not take years of apprenticeship to teach a man to screw two nuts on a Ford chassis as it passes him in straight-line production. So the A. F. of L.'s membership continues to be a diehard association of specialist craftsmen, for which industry has less & less use. On his death bed Gompers petulantly directed his membership to support the Presidential candidacy of the late Robert Marion...
...aged 22, he went to teach in China under Y. M. C. A. auspices, became attached to the. late great Dr. Sun and in 1927 turned up in Washington where he persuaded President Calvin Coolidge to recognize Nanking as the Government of all China...
...With a glance at the schedule for this date, it can easily be seen that one college is prominently suited to meet Yale--a college whose football ideas and ideals have become the criterion of success in the modern game, a college which has supplied graduates to teach others in her own image, and finally a college which is as truly representative of the Middle West as Yale is of the East. Such a college is Notre Dame, peculiarly akin to us in the spirit of football...