Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes to correct within the next two years. Coach Snyder also expects him to jump 27 ft. "when he gets his take-off right." Sure to be a mainstay of next year's Olympic team, Owens is 21, 5 ft. 10 in., 165 lb. He plans to teach Industrial Art after he graduates...
...post of dean of the graduate school and senior college Chancellor Kirkland had chosen no Vanderbilt wheel horse but President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael of Alabama College. President Carmichael is a onetime Rhodes scholar in anthropology who elected to teach French in Alabama schools. In 1922 he went to Alabama College as assistant to the president, stepped into his superior's shoes four years later. At 43 he is a progressive educator with a Hitler mustache and a talent for raising money...
Through the whole trinity of sciences runs the same distemper of bad morale. Cure this and most of the bad symptoms will vanish. Louder and louder grows the murmur that men are afraid to teach, driven away from the student by the intense pressure to produce tangible results from the laboratory. This pressure arises from the official belief that instructors will be intellectually dead at forty if they cannot drink deep of the fountain of perpetual youth that flows in the laboratory and the stacks. With some instructors this is true. But as a substitute for an intelligent personal estimate...
...Buffalo minister, sent him to Yale, where he majored in the glee club. He sang in concerts for 13 years until Gatti-Casazza, then serving his first season in the U. S., decided that he needed an extra bass. Witherspoon sang for eight years at the Met, retired to teach. During the hazardous season which preceded Samuel Insult's collapse, he directed the Chicago Civic Opera...
...teach canaries to sing, trainers spend laborious months playing flutes, violins, water organs, chimes. Last week Milton Metfessel reported to Science that eight canaries born & reared in soundproof cages in a University of Southern California psychology laboratory are now producing all the effects in a trained canary's repertoire: hollow roll, hollow bell, schockel, flutes, water roll, bass roll, glucke, glucke roll, water glucke, deep bubbling water tour, bell roll, bell tour, bell glucke...