Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York University offered a new course in practical education-a course in "Smells." Designed for future perfume experts, the course will try to teach the student that he smells not with his nose but with his mind...
...daughter of a St. Louis jeweler, Kay started playing the piano when she was four, appeared with the St. Louis Symphony at 15. Says she: "I was a stage-struck kid, and I got out of St. Louis fast." She went to California at 17 to teach diving, but made a bigger splash on the air, with the Mills Brothers, and later with Fred Waring. She had a radio program of her own, the Kay Thompson Festival, before ending...
Lesson. In Ionia, Mich., a thief Willis Clark had chased out of his garage returned a couple of hours later with a pistol, robbed Clark of $200, remarked virtuously: "That will teach you to treat people better...
First and foremost, his experience is that of a teacher, and he still believes in "academic bureaucrats," or deans who teach. Right now, Bender gives occasional lectures in American history, but hopes to expand his pedagogic pursuits when things settle down a bit. From the time of his graduation from Harvard in 1927 until two years ago, he has been teaching here or at Andover. For a while he was a "baby dean," and formed half of the two-man team that developed the National Scholarship plan...
After Harvard, where he says he concentrated in "fun and football," Woodman worked as agent for an English publishing house for a few years, and then after a year's sojourn in Europe, went to teach at the Morristown School in New Jersey, where he held "not a chair, but a settee," and afterwards became headmaster. In 1905 he wrote to his Class Secretary, "We are living the simple life, and are trying to teach the rising generation how to live it. My experiences have all been concerned with the training of the American boy, a very fine species...