Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much more important to the world at large than the opinion of insignificant Cuba, don't you think it would help to alleviate the sufferings of a sick humanity to have [the Cuban delegates] assist the U.S. in framing its foreign policy? At least, they may teach the U.S. State Department that "might" is not always necessarily "right...
...district since 1929, ought to be reestablished. Said the conservative Excelsior. "Society is handcuffed before the criminal, and the prestige of the country demands stronger methods. The [Porfirio] Díaz dictum-catch in the act, kill on the spot-unquestionably yielded better results. ... It is urgently necessary to teach a lesson to potential murderers by means of heavy punishment." Abreast of current opinion, a Pittsburgh electric supply house sent down a catalogue showing the latest thing in electric chairs...
...Harvard's crusty President Charles W. Eliot had to admit that his own graduate school, "started feebly in 1870, did not thrive until . . . Johns Hopkins forced [it to]." To the tidy campus on the edge of Baltimore went Poet Sidney Lanier, Viscount Bryce, and James Russell Lowell to teach or lecture. Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey and Walter Reed studied there. Its medical school, which often overshadowed the rest of it, also had its prophets: famed Physician William Osier, Gynecologist Howard A. Kelly, Pathologist William H. Welch, Surgeon William S. Halsted...
Died. John Robert Gregg, 80, inventor of Gregg shorthand; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He developed his own shorthand as a note-taking schoolboy in Ireland, published his first manual at 20, came to the U.S. to teach five years later, lived to see his system taught in an estimated 95% of U.S. commercial and public schools...
Tentative committees to teach Dunster House members the four sports have already been set up, the committee announced, with the specific purpose "to lay the foundations for extracurricular clubs on the House level." The three man committee of William Gold '49, William E. Jackson '47, and William E. McCoy '49 is already seeking suggestions for other courses...