Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain White will return to his position at forward after playing guard against Teach Wednesday night, while Vernon Struck bard hitting halfback on the Varsity football team, will move in to one of the guard posts. Bill Gray, star center is still out with a knee injury and is not expected back until the Princeton game...
This same group could be taken as a nucleus for the present proposal. The staffs of these schools are competent to teach elementary courses of College calibre in History, Government, English, Mathematics, the Language, and most of the Sciences. There are at present many alumni of this group in the College who are able to loaf through their Freshman year on the training received in courses similar to those open to them here. This waste and repetition should be saved by giving credit for the work done in the preparatory schools and making the Freshman year a valuable part...
...TIME, Dec. 16, under Education, you quote Headmaster Horace D. Taft as saying: "Why should we teach them to do something which any calf can do better?" with reference to initiating a course in milking in Taft School...
...women have a better right than she to consider her reminiscences of an active life a footnote to the history of her time. A Footnote to History was to have been the title of her book, but after thinking about history and what it had failed to teach her generation, Author Vorse changed the name to A Footnote to Folly...
...teacher of the old school. Mr. Taft has always believed in making his boys work hard, giving them heavy doses of Latin and mathematics. Once some progressive educators were urging him to teach the boys to use their hands, specifically to put in a course in milking. "Why," demanded Mr. Taft. "should we teach them to do something which any calf can do better?" Last week he had a fling at the College Entrance Examination Board, currently tinkering feverishly with its tests in an effort to please progressive teachers. "You would think," observed the old headmaster, ''that...