Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England, he went back there after finishing his U.S. training in 1913, has preached pigs and eggs to the Burmese ever since. After a hard struggle he founded his school in 1923, to train dirt farmers in a four-year course and send them back to the villages to teach their fellows the fine art of growing food...
...with a stiff boycott, arising not from spontaneous public opinion but from the pressure of civic and church groups in addition to a large part of the country's press. Such pressure is being exerted on Boston theatres at present. This sort of hysterical condemnation is like refusing to teach German, or boycotting Wagnerian operas. But to attack his right to obey his own conscience is worse than absurd; it is dangerous. It is attacking a right which is regarded as fundamental, so fundamental that we exercise it even in wartime, although it may interfere ever so slightly with...
Meanwhile, the Harvard instructors will be far from idle. The fact that they are going without pay does not seem to alter their desire to work; rather it seems to encourage it. Take the example of Professor Kirtley F. Mather. He is teaching Geology 1 throughout this year, he will teach it throughout the summer, and he will keep right on in the fall. He will continue to teach more advanced courses and seminars at the same time. And as if this were not enough, he will continue as Director of the Summer School which is really a full time...
Stressing the necessity of such primary training. Dean Holmes, of the School declared "No sudden period of intensive training for small numbers can give us a victorious army of air-fighters. The fundamentals of flight are not hard, and if all schools teach them, the process of developing a great body of pilots will be made easier...
...when CCC gets the seed, it must then lure more U.S. farmers to sow it across some 300,000 acres next year, teach them how to grow and harvest it. (But CCC knows of only ten people in all the U.S. who are fully versed in the sensitive art of harvesting hemp: cut too early, the fiber is weak, cut too late, it is damaged.) Thereafter, materials must somehow be found to build 100 processing plants near the new hemp fields, men must be trained to staff them...