Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City College into the Harvard Law School, which graduated him with highest honors in 1906. After a spell of moneymaking in the Stimson office and three years in Washington as law officer of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, in 1914 Star Pupil Frankfurter was invited back to Harvard to teach...
...campus, pointed at in public, Roy Riegels began to brood. He tried to forget those ten tragic seconds, but the world refused to forget. When, after graduation, he got a job as coach at a California high school, spectators heckled him from the stands: "Why don't you teach them to run the right way?'' When introduced to strangers, he was invariably greeted with the same exclamation: "Oh, you're the guy who ran the wrong...
...bring its self-defense propaganda as well as maps up to date. U. S. teachers, fresh from year-end conventions whose theme was democracy's defense, read in the U. S. Office of Education's publication, School Life, a reminder that State laws require them to teach their pupils devotion to the ideals and principles of democracy...
From textbook publishers' presses today pours a flood of books designed to teach democracy. Many of these books are less benign toward modern dictatorships than pre-War texts were toward the old European monarchies. Some denounce dictators. But most contemporary history books balance their moral indignation, state the dictatorships' case and let pupils judge for themselves. Sample excerpts...
...Peabody House, which contains the best scientific equipment of any settlement house in the country, the PBH workers teach classes of about eight boys in an unusually wide variety of subjects, ranging from radio broadcasting to guinea pigs...