Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...university with its elaborate machinery of instruction would then come into play to supplement college instruction. The university professors would teach; and the students of each college, under the supervision and by the advice of the master of the college, would select their courses. The system of general university electives would be combined with prescribed home courses in each individual college. The master would give tone and character to his college, and to each individual student in it. The final degree, bearing the name and seal of Harvard, would be conferred as the result of examinations in common...
Psychiatry. Eighteen colleges teach mental hygiene (preventive psychiatry). Psychiatric methods used to combat criminology, social dependency, alcoholism...
...returned to France where in 1927 she died, strangely strangled by one of her own scarfs when it caught in a wheel of her motor car.* Back in Moscow, the seed she had planted took root, flourished. Irma Duncan, an adopted daughter, had stayed to spread the gospel and teach children, just as the Great Isadora had taught her, to know music and translate it freely into bodily movement. Last week with twelve best pupils Dancer Irma arrived in Manhattan to begin there a ten-day memorial festival. Her first program, featuring Impressions of Revolutionary Russia, won highest praise. True...
...himself a noted scholar. He adopted the thrifty expedient of having a student translate the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek at morning prayers, and the New Testament from English into Greek at evening prayers, so as to combine piety and scholarship. But he did much else than teach. The College was supported largely by a "country rate" laid by the General Court in the towns, whose tax-collectors sometimes needed a personal visit before they would "come across...
...sadly do Harvard men recall that day in December, 1924, when a University Theatre was given to Yale by Edward Stephen Harkness, Yale '97. For, immediately, Professor George Pierce Baker of the famed Harvard 47 (theatre) Workshop was invited to the Yale faculty of Fine Arts to teach dramatics with the Harkness theatre as laboratory. Immediately, Prof. Baker accepted...