Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University has never possessed a tennis coach. Swimmers and fencers, soccer and lacrosse players are always under the direction of a competent instructor, who can teach inexperienced players the fine points of the game and watch over the training and physical condition of the adepts. Tennis seems to be the most "amateur" of our sports; training depends entirely upon the individual undergraduates who participate; the team is selected by an undergraduate captain; and younger players are forced to profit as best they may be undergraduate coaching...
...they are reaping their blighted harvests. For whereas formerly the demand for highly trained young men was adequately met by the technical schools of the country, today concerns are asking for ten men and only getting five because there are not enough instructors left to teach them. They have not looked ahead but have been satisfied with the gains of the moment...
...Chapin's prize winning essay, "Education and College," is stimulating rather than satisfying. He contends that the college stresses memory at the expenses of intellect, that the function of a university should be to teach the youth how to think, that Harvard teaches only what has been thought. Quite true. But he is a more skilful wrecker than builder. His Ideal University is unconvincing. Certainly this college and other American colleges are busied in filling brains instead of developing minds. This is inevitable. The present academic system, bad as it is, results naturally from the fact that the majority...
...more than teach men where to go for their information, such a course would perform a valuable function. The ability which it would give in collecting and weighing evidence on a mooted question, would be of value throughout life...
...Parlor of the Phillips Brooks House this afternoon at 4.30 on education in the Orient. The meeting, held under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society, is open to all members of the University, and aims principally to give to those men who contemplate going abroad to teach a chance to ask questions in a personal way concerning opportunities in that field...