Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smaller courses, such as his Brahms and Beethoven classes, provide Mr. Ballantine with an opportunity to teach men really interested in music and not with the vague "I want to learn about music" feeling that men in Music 4 possess. Conscientious always, his talent as a pianist and the humorous touches which he brings to his lectures make him a successful professor...
...most expert woman in the world on plebiscites is a U. S. citizen and her name is Sarah Wambaugh. She used to teach economics and history at Radcliffe and Wellesley. Last week the League of Nations picked her, with two men, to umpire that headline event Woodrow Wilson scheduled for sometime in 1935-the Saar plebiscite. The other umpires are Italy's Bindo Galli, president of Genoa's Court of Appeals, and Holland's L. A. Nypel, Supreme Court Justice. The three umpires will try to see that the Saar citizens, including Germans who lived...
...unemployment. Fruit of the first post-War years when Germany's armies came home to their wives, the 14-year-olds had to do something. Last week Chancellor Hitler offered the 600,000 to the housewives of Germany, as housemaids without pay for one year. The wives will teach the maidens how to cook, serve, wash and clean, will feed and bed them and pay their health insurance premiums. Friedrich Syrup, director of the Federal Institute for Unemployment Insurance, promised to find the girls paying jobs at the end of the "kitchen year." Cried he: "Are young German girls...
...show people do not behave as these do, it is only because there are not enough Hechts and MacArthurs to teach them how and give them bright lines to speak. Twentieth Century is good fun, slick, wild and improbable. John Barrymore is expert as the producer because, like the rest of his family, he is endowed with a touch of the spurious and theatrical. He postures, tears his hair, wriggles, shouts, jumps, and with a gesture or a lift of the voice delineates such spectacles as a herd of camels, Rev. Mr. Davidson in Rain, Judas strangling himself (with...
...There ought to be no separation of the faculty into those who teach and carry on creative work" -- this sentence, taken from President Conant's Report, may be said to contain the kernel of his philosophy of higher education. In the light of more recent developments, such as the letter sent to all members of the faculty requesting a statement of the time required for teaching and tutorial, it is apparent he intends in the near future to enable each instructor to spend more time in research...