Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last night whether Professor Sprague has as yet tendered his resignation from the Harvard faculty, or whether he would be released on a leave of absence for the duration of his tenure of office. Professor Sprague, who holds three degrees from Harvard, returned to the University in 1900, to teach, and since 1913 he has held the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professorship of Banking and Finance. For a three-year period, from 1905 to 1908, he taught economics at the Imperial University of Tokio...
Here he added the implication of the unjustifiableness of private schools and gave the following reasons for upholding this view: "It goes back to the thesis that the state is concerned with all schools. The state does not control what the private school teaches nor does it measure the achievement. Private schools may teach what they please. They may teach even subversive doctrine, or neglect that which is important in a democracy. It is true, however, they seldom take advantage of their opportunity...
Concerning the fact that private schools may teach what they will his lecture brought out the comment that they do so is remarkable evidence not so much of considered freedom as of failure to realize the potency of education for vitally affecting conduct that materially contributes to the building up or to the weakening of the state...
...weeks, and of Mr. Wacc's lecture, should prove of considerable interest to those with artistic inclinations Although the exhibits themselves may not be of startling importance, yet they are a further indication of an ever-increasing trend in education throughout the country as well as at Harvard, to teach a subject by first arousing the interest of the student. This applies to students in general, as well as those in Fine Arts, who come to college hoping for a broader field of education than was possible a generation ago. Here is the opportunity for casual observation which...