Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Employment Service to let him open up class in the defense school at Inglewood High. There he has to date graduated 250 mutes in bench machining, 150 more in machine-shop practices, shop mathematics and blueprint reading. The mutes themselves developed the new industrial sign language they must teach their normal-hearing, vocally equipped bosses...
That is why this year's Harvard-Yale classic may not seem, to the sparse gathering at the Bowl tomorrow, as spectacular or all-important an event as it has in the past. Whether Howie Odell, one-time pupil of Dick Harlow, can teach his former mentor a few tricks or not pales before the thought of what will be done by these same Crimson and Eli athletes a few months hence...
Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez, 31-year-old Yankee pitcher, went to work in General Electric's war plant in Lynn, Mass. To Cornell University, to teach Russian, went Marie Tolstoy, 34-year-old granddaughter of the famed Russian novelist...
Andy went off to teach college in Texas, but he soon got homesick for the purple, smoky hills and unlearned mountain folk of Georgia. So back he went, bought himself a small piece of land and began to keep school for his neighbors. His school, first called Rabun Gap, eventually merged with a small Presbyterian school with the Indian name Nacoochee and became the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. "Dr. Andy" developed it into a hillbilly college even stranger than its name. One part is a junior college for boys & girls, who mix book learning with farm work, which pays most...
...Andy believed that what Georgia's hut-dwelling, soil-scratching, God-fearing mountain folk needed most was someone to teach them how to live and farm better. He bought more land, put up neat, comfortable farmhouses, let each family farm 40 acres with teachers to show them how. In classroom sessions that are more like town meetings than classes, the men talk about soil, animals and crops, the women discuss better housekeeping. Children spend part of their day in school, part learning chores. As payment for instruction, house and land, each family returns part of its produce...