Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most publicized coaching feuds in collegiate history. Coach Kiphuth frankly disliked his aggressive Midwestern rival, saw no use for his mechanical rabbits and other training gadgets used to develop stamina and pace. Coach Mann looked with disdain on his Eastern rival who had taught himself to teach swimmers by watching others swim...
Last week Dean Rappleye went to Chicago to the annual Congress on Medical Education & Licensure, conducted by the A. M. A., worried about a stumbling block to his plan: Young medical graduates who want to become specialists by 1940 have been unable to get medical faculties and facilities to teach them all that the twelve examining boards want them to know. There, his Commission of Graduate Medical Education, formed last December, impatient with the slow progress made by the A. M. A., appointed Wisconsin General Hospital Superintendent Robin Carl Buerki, onetime president of the American Hospital Association, to get educators...
Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...
...they should do tutorial in the Sophomoric sense. With four courses and sometimes English A, and the necessary balancing of extracurricular activities with the academic diet, even bright Freshmen who find courses dull and repetitious, carry, nevertheless, a full program. Therefore the purpose of "tutorial" should be only to teach future concentrators the meaning and significance of tutorial. Opening their eyes to what the field officers, which of course will involve the introduction of new material, is wiser than assigning too much reading and too many reports. Despite their main function, Freshman tutors should not forget that they will...
...main Chinese university which receives support from the Institute is Yenching University in Peiping which is considered the outstanding Chinese university. Many of its graduates come here to get their doctorate degrees, it turning afterwards to teach in China Besides its work in history and archaeology important work has been done in compiling indices to ancient Chinese books, 28 volumes of which have already been published...