Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what they think. Under our present civilization, Mr. Nearing continued, an ever increasing specialization is tending to disrupt all cooperation between different men and classes, and hence, now more than ever before, we are in need of a set of men, philosophers, teachers as well as propagandists, to teach people the truth and to "tell them the names of things". "If these men do not come from the colleges, they may possibly rise from the laboring classes, but the colleges should furnish them. If they do not the world will roll on to an awaiting destruction...
...each graduating class a few men, with the proper qualifications, were to teach in the college for two or three years, these men might well act as a kind of intermediary between, the student body and the faculty. They would be naturally in touch with the undergraduates, and could maintain their contact fairly easily. At the same time, by their interest in affairs academic and intellectual, they would set an example which could not fail to have its effect, and they would also be able to further the acquaintance between the student and the older members of the Faculty...
...foremost citizens of Switzerland, is president of the Comptoir d'Escompte, the famous European banking institution, and is a leading authority on the League of Nations. He is visiting this country to promote interest in the summer school of the University of Geneva, the aim of which is to teach students of non French-speaking countries the French language and history and politics in their relation to international affairs. He will speak at many universities, including Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Cornell...
...University of Geneva is arranging for 1922 a summer term beginning late in June and extending until the first of October, for the study of French and also of contemporaneous international affairs, and is inviting professors of international law and politics from several European universities to teach at this session. American students attending it will be in Geneva at the time of the annual meeting of the League of Nations in September. M. Fatio is visiting the University in the interest of this project...
...says: "The game is all right; let it alone." It is probably not to be expected that the coaches will discuss the more general and more vital problems of the game--the problems about which such a great number of educators, and newspapers, have been talking lately; those who "teach" the game are too close to see its dangerous tendencies. Nevertheless, if the coaches could realize the absolute necessity of grading down the over-emphasis now placed on the game--by cutting down practice to term-time, and by placing more emphasis on the value of playing the game...