Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munargo takes 60 hr. U. S. tycoons flocked to Nassau too last week, for the huge terra cotta New Colonial Hotel ($16 to $44 per day) was opening its winter season. On the site of the elegant New Colonial once stood old Fort Nassau where the pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, used to water his ships, count his loot. A wily ruffian, he wore his luxurious whiskers in fine points, braided them with gay ribbons in peace, with smouldering slow matches in war. Bootleggers load their ships at Nassau today. Not far from the New Colonial Hotel...
...Author. Ogden Nash, 29, was a Harvardman for one year, left to teach at St. George's School, Newport, then went to Manhattan to sell bonds, which he found hard to do. Onetime adman for Barren Collier, Doubleday Page, this month he joined the editorial staff of the New Yorker...
This proves the close chemical and physiological resemblance between human red blood cells and plant chlorophyll cells, is an evidence of common origin. When listening scientists wondered that evolutionary data should come from a Roman Catholic institution, Dr. Raber explained: "We are allowed to teach evolution in Catholic schools so long as we do not teach evolution of the soul...
...point of stupidity, the usual college lecture ranks next to the recitation. Lecturers are rare, particularly among lecturers, just as teachers are rare particularly among teachers. To staff a college with teachers who can teach is difficult enough. To staff a college with teachers who can teach by lecturing is all but downright impossible. If you have a number of such teachers at Harvard, how many institutions share Harvard's good fortune...
...human being. Try to staff a college with professors of that type, and you will find that you have your hands full. Succeed, and you will still have your hands full, for it is the hardest thing in the world to convince even the best professors that they teach most effectively when they teach with their mouths shut...