Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including explanation by grade school teachers of the care and use of sexual organs. Against this, in the case of young children, the abhorrence of the Church is maximum. Further, last week's Pastoral Letter explicitly declared that for a Catholic to be a Socialist, or study or teach Socialism, or cooperate to Socialist ends, or even for appearance's sake to feign to approve Socialism, is to commit a "mortal...
...years with the big Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, Lawyer Douglas learned all that he cared to know about the current state of corporate law. He returned to Columbia to teach, having gained little respect and no love for Wall Street law or finance. Today he can accept a luncheon invitation from Morgan Partner George Whitney without a twitter. When Joe Kennedy drafted him to conduct SEC's investigation of protective committees, Mr. Douglas was occupying the well-upholstered chair of a Sterling Professorship at the Yale Law School. Having since ploughed through the mire...
...experience Mr. Frost has gained in the faculties of the University of Michigan, Amherst and Yale should make his contribution to Harvard doubly valuable. The recently inaugurated practice of calling upon working technicians to teach the arts cannot be too highly praised. Unless a man has an intimate and working knowledge of his subject he is no better fitted to teach it than a book. When men who write poetry, prose, the short-story or any other form of literature are called upon to teach it, then and not till then, will education assume its true function and meaning. Harvard...
...year. This winter, skiing has suddenly become a nationwide mania. Evidences: In New York, department stores (Saks-Fifth Avenue, Macy's, Altman's, Spalding's) within the past two months have installed indoor ski-slides, covered with borax. Instructors ($2 to $3 an hour) give advice, teach beginners to keep their balance, to perform simple turns, to stop without falling down. In California, sale of ski equipment is this year 100% above last. In Hollywood, characters like Charlie Chaplin, Helen Twelvetrees, Joel McCrea, Mrs. Frank Borzage, have become skiing devotees. At the University of California, three years...
Engaged by the U. S. Department of Justice to teach its G-Men jujitsu was Philadelphia's Socialite Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr., 61, father of the U. S. Minister to Norway, oldtime amateur boxer ("Tim O'Biddle...