Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exception to this general rule, however, Rand pointed to the "stimulating" survey courses that were given here when he began to teach in 1901, and urged that similar ones be offered today. "They were attractive and easy to pass, and so everybody took them," he said, emphasizing the value of courses which provide a worthwhile experience that can be shared in common...
...Like many a language student before him, he discovered that songs improve the ear, enlarge the vocabulary and warm the heart. Mexican popular songs are good. Mr. Wallace listened, learned, sang. One evening last autumn he talked to NBC's Executive Frank Mullen about a radio program to teach Spanish that...
...Japanese has had a 1000% increase since December. Only a handful of universities (Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Washington, California, Yale, George Washington, a few others) with "qualified teachers" now teach Japanese. All are working at capacity at a stubborn language which requires a year and a half's study before a bright pupil can read a Japanese newspaper...
...blast on a sankha, an instrument shaped like a big ocarina. Last week, in Manhattan's tiny Carnegie Chamber Music Hall, there was both gong-beating and sankha-blowing. The occasion was an evening of Hindu dances, put on by two Hindus, Bhupesh Guha and Sushila, who live, teach and foster their dance troupe in the backwaters of Manhattan...
...give each student the good physical background that we feel is essential for future training in the Army and for the general health of the nation in time of war. We are using military men for the first part of the program not because we want to teach military training, but because we want to give future officers the experience in leading men that they will need in the army," Bingham emphasized...