Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aristocrats among the 123,304 U. S. Roman Catholic nuns are those who belong to the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Called "Mothers" and "Madames," they run many a swank day and boarding school, teach French and other polite subjects to good little Protestants as well as Catholic girls. Their order was founded in 1800 by Madeleine Sophie Barat, who was canonized by her Church in 1925. To qualify as a Madame, a girl of respectable parentage and unblemished reputation must take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, study and teach for five or six years, then undergo...
...late Billy Guard, the Metropolitan's kindly pressagent, gave Mary Moore her first glimpse of opera when she was 14. Because she wanted so much to be a singer and because he was Irish, too, he gave her free passes, persuaded his friend Edythe Magee to teach her. Her only public appearance before her debut last week was with an obscure opera company in Baltimore...
...tabloid Daily News. Like many another practical newsman of this generation, "Joe" Patterson has little faith in schools of journalism. Last week, after reading the Pulitzer School's announcement, he filled the whole editorial column of his News with a piece entitled "On How Not to Teach Journalism." With it he printed a picture of Columbia's aging President Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler and the saucy caption: "Some ideas here for you, Doctor." Excerpts from the editorial...
...consider [Columbia's action] a step in the right direction, but believe that course is still one year too long. The way to teach journalism, we think, is not to teach it at all as a special, separate college course. . . . We speak from a modicum of experience in this matter. The newspaper organization of which this paper is a part founded the Medill School of Journalism. . . . The Medill School . . . was founded with the idea of training youngsters to become newspaper men and women. Naturally, the newspaper founding the school expected to have first choice from the cream of each...
...left him after a month, was forced back to him three years later; the other two he married after he was blind. His only son died young, and his understandably unfilial daughters, according to tradition, were made to read aloud to him in languages he had never troubled to teach them. And Biographer Macaulay. like Belloc. advances no cogent reason for Milton's immunity at Charles II's restoration...