Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a good center, passer, punter and place-kicker, the rest of it did not worry Mr. Yost much. His object was to school his team in defense, teach them football (at least as much football as he possibly could) and impress upon them the value of following the ball...
...Until we teach them and educate them how to live so that their brains will continue to function for the years added to the bodies' life, there is little use in increasing the life span."-Dr. Mayo...
...choice of Koussevitzky for Boston has proved singularly happy. He is an excellent musician, although it is said he cannot read a score, has to hire pianists to teach him new music before he in turn can transmit it to his men. He has the magnetism, the energy which were necessary to rejuvenate Boston's orchestra in 1924. He has an insatiable interest in new music and a talent for playing it. His programs are indisputably the best in the country. So is his understanding of Ravel and Debussy...
...Corp.), before she had operatic ambitions. Two years ago her debut with the Philadelphia Grand Opera (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928) was said to have cost Husband Brulatour $100,000. She had private rehearsals (at approxi- mately $5,000 apiece) with full-piece orchestra, established singers and a conductor to teach her opera technique. Now in a way reminiscent of her movie past she has equipped herself with a deluge of fantastic publicity. All Los Angeles heard last week that at home in Manhattan she sleeps in a canopied bed, an ermine rug for a blanket, toes always exposed; that...
...make successful a system which depends so much upon personal contact and the individual guidance of young minds who must be shown the inspiring possibilities in gathering knowledge, the chief requisite seemed to me to be teachers who not only were qualified to teach but loved to teach. We therefore sought inspiring teachers wherever we could find them, disregarding the modern fetish for research and weighing not only the ordinary and official recommendations as to a man's teaching ability but the opinions of his former students... In other words, he was not considered unless he had that divine gift...