Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Criticized for her U. S. accent, Anna May Wrong paid an Oxford tutor ?200 to teach her his. Her vogue in London made her a featured player when she returned to the U. S. in 1930. Since then she has acted in a Broadway play, performed in Daughter of the Dragon, and Shanghai Express, sung in a London night club, made three British pictures, toured the British Isles in a song revue. Now in Hollywood, her next picture will be Limehouse Nights...
After his welcome of the newcomers President Conant said that in many ways the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the keystone of a university, in that here are developed the men who will teach the coming generations...
...give the courses in the required fashion, but left the poor struggling law students coming to drink the chalices of learning at the "world's greatest" rather against this new system of government which feels it necessary to take away the men who were hired, it was said, to teach them...
...apparently the legal geniuses that burn in Langdell prefer to offer their ideas to the government, perhaps in an effort to bring some order out of the chaos that rules our life. Sad Indeed is it to see our youth of today go without the teachings of the great, but, oh, perhaps it is more valuable for the masters to attempt to teach their findings to those who feel that brains, as such, can run a government...
...universal education and founded this on the (so called) 'project' method. What was the result? In a resolution adopted by the central committee of the Communist party on Aug. 25, 1932, the whole plan was declared ineffective and undesirable. It did not give sufficient general knowledge and failed to teach the essential principles of specific subjects. The resolution prescribed a more thorough study of individual subjects, more time to be spent on mathematics, physics and foreign languages, and the reintroduction of examinations and the marking system...