Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonders can Harvard teach economics with a straight face when a mere glance at the parking place shows the little its teachings are practised? President Lowell used to point with pride to the way Harvard's investments had been handled during the depression. what would he think of the University present internal economics? Aside from the gross injustice to the impecunious student, for whom the Parking Place was ostensibly created, it is hard to reconcile the management of the Lot with the prospect of slashes in the tutorial system. Far more money would accrue to Lehman Hall were the parking...
Trainer Belmont divulged a few professional secrets. A good way to reprimand a monkey is to bite it. But canaries must be guided by patience and love. A real singing bird must start his career at eight weeks, when a conscientious master will shut him in a dark room, teach him to imitate a master canary, a human whistle or some musical instrument. A canary that shows promise should practice three hours a day and by the end of a year should have its repertoire fully developed...
...opening lecture, Dean Wigmore will discuss "How to Teach Law Today." The talk will be delivered in Langdell South Middle, at the Law School, at 3 o'clock...
...economic factors, and nourishes a type of teacher who considers Justice standardized, it is doomed, as all lawyers and legal systems which have failed to meet the requirements of society have been doomed. For the function of the lawyer--and above all the lawyer-teacher--is not only to teach what is the law and what its historical development has been, but also upon what the law as an expression of Justice is based. And in anticipation of our critics who may ask, as a famous judge once asked Carlyle, to define Justice, we quote Carlyle's reply: "My Lord...
Last week there was no school in Pompey Hollow. Pert, pretty Esther De Lee, who used to teach in the little upstate New York hamlet, was staring defiantly across a courtroom in nearby Syracuse. Glowering back at her was James N. Armstrong, Pompey Hollow's lean, sallow school trustee. Every one of Pompey Hollow's twelve schoolchildren was in the courtroom. So too were their parents, their parents' friends, Miss De Lee's friends and Mr. Armstrong's friends...