Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colleges undertake to teach young men to think and then plunge them into so many activities that they have no time to think," is a charge made by the president of Lafayette. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, who was for a long time a college president, declares that the standard college is a misfit in education and is a cumbersome mill, grinding material indiscriminately...
Ebersole to Teach...
...Ciano, father of the young bridegroom of Premier Mussolini's daughter. TIME would make itself a treat in leaving the Italian affairs in more skilful hands, if events marking the life of Italy-that great country that much taught to humanity in the past and a lot can teach today-should continue to be published so stubbornly and so misleading, against the sovereignty of truth and outraging any editorial's dignity...
...Committee, rewrote the Fish resolution, put his own name on it. To be investigated were "Communist propaganda in the U. S. . . . The Communist party of the U. S. and all affiliated organizations . . . the Communist International, the Amtorg Trading Corp., The Daily Worker and all groups or individuals who . . . advise, teach or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the U. S. or attempt to undermine our Republican form of government...
...these generalities immediately pop into our minds as we read them in cold print. And yet we can get them off with a perfectly straight face, and conviction in our tones. This bland positiveness bears out the suggestion of a recent alumna that college, whatever it may teach us, is very apt to deprive us of our sense of humor and our ability to see things in their proper proportions and relationships...