Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public school,- they will spend some five years on the green campus in the shadow of many a fine Gothic building, across the Thames from Windsor Castle. Some of them will go up to Oxford when they finish their course, spend three years there, return then to Eton to teach Latin and cricket to the boys. Their progress through the school depends quite upon their own aptitudes. They must finish the Lower School before the age of 16. Then, under the guidance of the masters of the 28 houses and the tutors who supervise outside work, they must advance through...
...though this is but a matter of expert opinion, the greatest practicing U. S. surgeon. He is a stocky, diffident homebody,* somewhat given to philosophizing. "I believe that it would not be out of place to establish departments in medical schools for the purpose of giving courses that would teach common sense methods in the practice of the art of medicine. . . . There are many ways in which information concerning medical facts may be given to the public that are certain to be helpful in establishing a more confident and intimate relationship between the public and the profession: public health...
Roman Catholic Father Malachy Mulligan was summoned from his monastery to an Edinburgh parish to teach a slipshod congregation how to chant plain song. Across the street from the church were two grievous eyesores: a Church of England edifice placarded with snappy ads for religion, and the Garden of Eden dance hall. Of the two, the Garden of Eden was slightly more offensive to the Catholic priest. Father Malachy, meeting the Anglican parson on the street and becoming involved in theological argument, became so annoyed that he promised to perform a miracle: he would cause the Garden of Eden...
...libraries, and an endowment of over $6,000,000. Many of the blessings enumerated above, those coming from Mr. Harkness in particular, must be credited to Exeter's headmaster: Lewis Perry, brother of Bliss Perry, famed former Harvard English professor and onetime Editor of the Atlantic Monthly. After teaching at Lawrenceville School and at Williams, his alma mater (class of 1898), he came to Exeter in 1914. No scholar, he does not teach at Exeter, spends much time away from school spreading Exter's fame and obtaining endowments...
...their intelligence as well as iconoclasm. Critic Brown is hard to please. A onetime student at famed Professor George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop, Critic Brown has never written a play himself but has published critical works (Upstage, Modern Theatre in Revolt). This summer he will again teach at the University of Montana...