Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Revecca of M. I. T. The first team, after winning four bouts, gave way to the complete second team, which won four of the five remaining bouts. For Harvard Captain Snow took two bouts and was easily the star of the meet. Revecca was the best man of the Teach team...
President Lowell, the concluding speaker, said: "Education has heretofore been concerned too much with the mechanics of education. The object of our new, school will be to study the ultimate effect of different phases of teaching on the human mind. Furthermore we must not look to teach the problems of the present, but the problems of the future...
...series of lectures to be held at the Union, and the talk which Dean Pound is to give in Standish Hall tonight are of particular importance in that they will teach the undergraduate something sure to be of practical assistance to him in after life. Absorbed in its desire to give students an "academic education," the University is apt to overlook the importance of leaving with its members something to guide them in the days that follow graduation. The result has been that the young University man is thrust from the shelter of his alma mater into the maze...
...doubt but that partisan politics serve a very definite end in government, but a sharp party division has its drawbacks as well. We let the party leader do the thinking. We swallow campaign literature instead of digesting current thought. A college education, if it accomplishes anything, should teach us to formulate our judgments independently. The path of least resistance is to have our politics bequeathed to us, but the educated man thinks for himself...
...unlike medicine or law, this training must be gained in the offices. A medical school can teach anatomy because the student can practice on a human body, but a business school cannot teach the mechanism of foreign exchange because it cannot actually ship goods. The college graduate entering the exporting business will find that his education will help only in so far as it has developed his ability; has taught him to think clearly and work effectively...