Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last autumn Mr. Ringling refused to book his Sells-Floto circus at the Chicago Stadium for this spring. Instead he took the older, smaller Chicago Coliseum, for a generation the South Wabash Avenue scene of circus in Chicago before the handsome greystone stadium was built on Madison Street. To teach John Ringling a lesson, young President Strotz announced that his own Great European Olympia Circus, which he last week had almost in readiness, would perform daily at the Stadium for null admissions on the same days (April 4 to 19) that the Sells-Floto show is in town charging...
...been suggested by the committee that Phillips Brooks House discontinue the sending of a man to teach at Roberts, Constantinople, and devote the money formerly used for that purpose to further the aims of such mission as may be selected...
...general atmosphere of uncertainty on matters of faith, there are special difficulties in [getting young men to subscribe] to the formularies of the Church. There can be no question but that the Church must satisfy itself of the faith of those to whom it gives a commission to teach. Some test is indispensable. But there is increasing agreement that the Thirty-Nine Articles [Anglican creed, formulated 1576] in their present form are unsuitable for this purpose...
...girl was immeasurably shocked & revolted, went home and told her father. He, Rev. Byron Christopher Nelson, vigorous young Lutheran minister, bounced off to a Kiwanis Club luncheon, read passages from the book, A Child's History of the World. Said he: ". . . There is plenty of other stuff to teach." (He is author of After Its Kind, considered authoritative by antievolutionists...
Many will doubtless say that a person cannot be taught to teach but must learn for himself through experience. It is true that the science of education even if mastered does not necessarily make one an able teacher. But there are certainly a large number who have the germ of ability in this line and only need some able instruction by a professor with a sound knowledge of the subject to become capable guides and teachers for their pupils...