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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first duty of a college is to provide professors who can teach. To do nothing but teach is not, however, the ambition of a great number of college professor,-and rightly so; for a man who by years of training, is qualified to write or to compose music should be able to devote himself to create something of his own. But primarily he must teach. If the colleges have gained wide reputation as the sources of contributions to the arts, it is only because their professors have managed to find time to devote themselves to such things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PARTON OF TODAY | 5/18/1921 | See Source »

...these examiners, especially the professor kind, may be to point out the fact that a college graduate is supposed to be well-read; he is interested in life; he knows common facts of literature and history and geography for his own satisfaction. It is not for professors to teach general knowledge, even if their students do not know an artichoke; nor are the colleges guilty of a grave omission in their duties; nor are professors and students more ignorant now than they used to be. If these examiners are seeking to expose really dangerous ignorance, they are on the wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARTICHOKES AND EDUCATION | 5/14/1921 | See Source »

...cloak, capable of giving its owner the power to fly through the wind and clouds. The graceful nymph, "Tennin", played by Miss Madeline Brine '22 of Radcliffe, who cannot return to her native haunts in Tryiyama without her cloak, retrieves it from the fisherman only after she promised to teach him the quaint dance of the Japanese Tennis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIED PLAYS TO BE GIVEN BY DRAMATIC CLUB | 5/12/1921 | See Source »

...Japanese "NCH" play, "Hagoromo", Miss Madeline Brine, as Tennis, will portray the Japanese Nymph who, on finding her cloak stolen by a fisherman, learns that she must teach him to dance in order to retrieve it. The part of the fisherman will be played by Henderson Matthews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICK CASTS FOR THREE DRAMATIC CLUB PLAYS | 5/7/1921 | See Source »

...wanted to teach Economics at Boone University, which is at Wr. Chang China. Five men are a wanted to teach English Literature, Political Science and History, Chemistry, Physics and Commercial Subjects at St. John's University at Shanghai. Three men so wanted to teach general subjects in the preparatory school for English speakers boys at Baguio, Philippine Islands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS WANTED TO TEACH IN CHINA AND PHILIPPINES | 5/7/1921 | See Source »

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