Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ward broke her connection with the school six years ago but it still thrives with a faculty of ten, enrollment of 125. Graduates have already gone as far as Japan and Australia to teach the proper way to sing plain song. Mother Georgia Stevens, the school's director, is also a convert. She is widely known for her music textbooks for children, hopes some day to make the boys in her school sing as well as the girls...
...rich, 32-year-old Yaleman William Edward Boeing tired of his family's lumber business in Seattle, hired Glenn Martin to teach him to fly. Two years later, Bill Boeing smashed his pontoons in landing. Unable to get a new pair at once, he set out to make them himself, ended up by building a whole new plane in a one-room factory with 30 employes. It turned out so well that the Army asked for some like it. Somewhat to his own surprise, Bill Boeing agreed to make them. When the Armistice abruptly killed all military contracts...
...part of the school-system; as it writhes under his pricks it may yet fashion a pearl. Thrice blest is Columbia's selection of him to give the series of lectures. It gives him a pulpit for his doctrines and affords his many supporters a chance to hear him teach once more. To an equal extent the University increases its honor and reputation...
...last year he had proved conclusively that he could teach his sport as well as do it; many men joined his beginners class to learn how to use the gloves; and his team was one of the best in the East, for it was they who toppled Virginia from the crown as an undefeated team which they had enjoyed for six years...
...West. Involving numerous changes from the style that Whiteside-coached Crimson crews had rowed in years previous, some of Bolles' associates had anticipated that he would have quite a lot of trouble bringing this new technique to Harvard. The general impression was that his system was too tough to teach the boys in the East; but the difficulties did not materialize and apparently the men are thriving under the new system. As for Bolles, he won't admit that it is tougher; "the way we row now is more logical than any other...