Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cows weigh about 80 Ibs. Not longer than 48 hours after arriving at the Pribilofs, each gives birth to a pup. Two weeks later the cow seals desert their progeny, returning at ever-lengthening periods to feed them, investigate their growth, teach them how to swim. Their rookeries are situated along the shore or a little inland among the barren rocks...
...graduate of the Modern Language Department may intend to teach, but when, after his employer has learned that he has an S. B., what can he answer to the question. "In which particular field of science are you qualified to teach?" The arrangement leads to a ridiculous anomaly. The CRIMSON has suggested the remedy of "letting the field of concentration of undergraduates determine the kind of degree they are to receive." If this is not satisfactory, there are certainly other reforms that will amend the situation. J. H. Selvidge...
...dusk Gurdjieff, unharmed, rescued his antagonist who was wounded, unconscious. He spent his youth wandering in the East, trying everything once. Say his followers, in the Tibetan mountains he found traces of a forgotten way of life, as old as Pythagoras (532 B. C..); he returned to Europe to teach it to a few. He bought the medieval prieuré at Fontainebleau. turned it into his Institute. Institutees lived simply, worked hard, learned complicated Eastern dances to Gurdjieff's music (he has written more than 5,000 pieces...
...would be embarrassing. But, fortunately, for my composure, I cannot leave Washington. I feel very deeply the great honor that you do me. To have the picture placed where I understand it is to be, in your magnificent hall--worthy of the noble corps of professors and instructors who teach there--seems to mark the culmination of my life and leaves me ready to say, 'Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace...
...boyhood until he was ten. Then he traveled in Europe and Africa with his parents, studied at Turin, Italy, entered his novitiate at Monaco, France, where he became a member of the Society of Jesus. In 1878 he entered Woodstock College, Maryland, and shortly thereafter was called to teach at what was then Santa Clara College. Almost immediately he began to study the heavens; those aspects of the universe which many dismiss as "physical" he easily conceived to be other forms of "spiritual" evidence...