Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present system in which the teacher is confused with the pure research worker might be remedied by adopting a plan recently announced at the University of Chicago, in which the graduate students of each department are given opportunities to teach under the supervision of some experienced educator and are also offered a special course on the problems of college teaching. A corollary to this proposal would be the granting of two separate Ph. D. degrees, one for those who plan to go on with educational work and the other degree to those primarily interested in research...
...grant better terms when he had to look for money himself? I raised my voice against this foolish attitude. Soon after, Mr. Peter A. Bogdanov [now chairman of Amtorg] came to the United States and brought a bunch of Communists with him. It was decided by him to 'teach Americans a lesson.' Telegrams were sent to Moscow with the request to divert orders from the United States to other countries. The Amtorg is now engaged in trying to blackmail the United States into recognizing the Soviet government...
...Washington will eliminate courses of a vocational or trade nature, said President Matthew Lyle Spencer: "In other words, it is our belief that education in a university should not do for society in general that which society can do for itself. It is almost as reasonable for us to teach our pharmacy students how to mix soft drinks or to make sandwiches for the drug store trade." True Portrait. To offset the impression which the cinema, college publications and "the genial cynicism or barbed criticism of editorial comment in journals of opinion" create about college life, President Ernest Martin Hopkins...
...last week, the populace would have scurried from accusations of heresy. For usually Dominicans operated the Inquisition, with the occasional aid of Franciscans. But the Inquisition no longer exists. The Black Friars confine themselves to the main purposes of their founder, St. Dominic of Guzman (1170-1221)-to preach, teach and missionize. Master General Gillet's visit to the U. S. was chiefly to inspect the work of his chief subordinates in this country. Those chiefs are Very Rev. Raymond Meagher of Manhattan, provincial of all Dominicans east of the Rocky Mountains, and Very Rev. Pius M. Driscoll...
Harvard endeavors to present to her students a wide field of opportunity, to teach them not facts or formulas, but to endow them with the power to think for themselves, to enable them to discriminate between that which is essential and that which is non-essential, and to reach independent judgments. Justice Holmes has said that education "is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live...