Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colleges today are prone to emphasize the importance of professors as "great men." This is a natural outcome of large classes which tend to minimize a man's ability to teach. The chief demand, now, of a professor is that he know something well...
...Flemish speakers, each faction striving to oust the language of the other from Belgium's schools. Last February the famed University of Ghent was made 100% Flemish-speaking by Parliament. Recently Minister of Science & Arts Maurice Vauthier decreed that no professor from the University of Ghent may teach in other Belgian colleges...
...Chandrasekhara, unlike Herr Doktor Fischer, is used to fame, has been about more. After his graduation from Presidency College, Madras, he served as an enrolled officer in the Indian finance department. In 1917 he went to the University of Calcutta to teach physics, research on light and sound. The British association chose him as lecturer in 1924, sent him to Toronto. Later that year he was invited to become research associate in physics at California Institute of Technology. At his home in Calcutta where he lives with his wife Lokasundarammal, he works hard, is busy being editor of The Indian...
...there's a sore point: the old rover is homesick. With the best of intentions and a desire to keep pace with progress he packed himself off to Lowell House last year, determined to take part in the new Harvard. But after all, it's pretty hard to teach an old dog new tricks and, frankly, the Vagabond is not happy in his new lodgings, even the men who paint his tower have conspired to make him blue. The youngsters round about him seem happy, but the sound of insular accents and the sight of foreign customs are too much...
...Jane: solid Fred, radical Ernest. Fred could not read or write but knew all there was to know about handling a canal barge. (If you think little technique is required in Fred's profession. Author Herbert's account of a trip up the "Cut" from London to Birmingham will teach you better.) Fred was honest and capable, but gave Jane nary a thrill. Ernest was a bright one, talked socialism at her 16 to the dozen; when he paused for breath took liberties. Jane did not really like him but he did excite her. But when handsome, aristocratic Artist Bryan...