Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doorstep, posters in every Philadelphia streetcar, inviting one & all to join a new Junto and gather in the museums for fun and learning. Members would attend ten-week courses (at $2 a course) on such subjects as art, cartooning, music, nature, airplanes, contract bridge, writing, gardening, philosophy, dancing. To teach them, he got top-notch instructors (who practically donated their services at $5 to $10 a session...
...teach isolated Catholics and potential converts the elements of the faith by mail...
...microscopes. For specimens, he "skipped through the marshes" after frogs, once hauled back a croaking load on a sleeping car. From frogs he promoted his class to cadavers. So elegant was his dissecting and embalming that his Negro janitor mailed handbills to undertakers, offering to teach them Dr. Welch's secrets...
...also human. And some there are who say that Chaucer and Shakespeare, the poets, perished on his philological dissecting table. Still, this pedagogue knew his business and could teach. He could teach mere boys to understand their Mother Tongue in its greatest period, the late 16th and early 17th centuries, until they were so saturated with it that they could write and even speak Elizabethan English. And in a time when intellectual standards have been slackened, when every arrant sentimentalist can spring a new educational theory and the wine of learning is watered, the austerity of a Kittredge, his snorting...
...Kittredge had not lost his temper with the boys; he was merely yielding to the irrepressible impulse to teach,--this time to teach manners and morals. That was also the case when with his walking-stick he poked off the hat of a man who had not uncovered his head on entering Widener. The offender turned out to be, not a student, but a younger colleague who did not particularly relish the lesson. But everything was settled peaceably, and the men were the best of friends...