Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Booker will have general supervision at the Big Tree Swimming Pool on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons and will teach men how to swim. In addition there will be an instructor at the pool on the other afternoons to take charge of Freshmen who elect swimming as their sport...
...professors are former members of the Yale faculty. Wilbur C. Abbott comes from the Shefileld Scientific School to teach History at Harvard. He will give courses in Modern English History, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, taking over much of the work of the late Professor R. M. Johnston and of Mr. Harold J. Laski, who has left Harvard to become a full professor at the University of London. The other Yale addition to the Harvard staff is A. Kingsley Porter, the leading American authority on Mediaeval Architecture, who is to be Professor of Fine Arts, spending most...
Among the professors who will be absent all or part of the year are R. F. A. Hoernle, who has resigned to teach at Durham University, England; A. B. Hart '80, who has been sent as an exchange professor to France; George II. Parker '87. and Edward W. Forbes '95, who are to be exchange professors to Western colleges; Arthur Pope '01, who is in Europe on the Sachs Travelling Fellowship: Bliss Perry, who has been granted a year's leave of absence...
...book is a parable intended to inculcate a moral, we can well inquire what lesson it is designed to teach, for the moral may be no less important today than in the remote period when the book was written. Jonah was a reformer who felt that he had a mission to rebuke the immorality, the material motives, the levity, and the lack of serious thought in the great city of his time. But he sought to occupy himself with other things, or, as the writer describes it, he tried to flee from the presence of God. But in vain, Even...
...College men should take the part of men of intelligence and culture. The discontent in modern industry is the result of a too narrow outlook. A more liberal culture will reveal the importance and the nobility of the work of the world. It is far from enough to teach our citizens a vocation. Our industrial system will break down unless it is harmonized. There is greater need for a liberal culture that will develop the whole man in the whole body of our citizenship. The day when a college education will be the portion...