Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Institute of Technology has been added a new course--"humanics". The subject is to prepare the student "to meet the experiences which come when anyone has practical business dealings with someone else"; thus runs the description of the new course. In brief, the purpose of the study is to teach the men not to be egoists and to realize the value of working with the other person for the good of the whole rather than for personal good...
There is an old adage, that comes to my mind, which was taught me, while still very young: "He, who knows not, and knows that he knows not is simple; teach him. He, who knows not. and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid...
...your own minds," said the speaker, "but Yale and Princeton haven't found it out yet. ... If there's anything you birds want to know that Harvard didn't teach you, just get it off your chests and I'll try to wise you up. . . . You boys look all right to me. Talking straight, I hope you like me. Still, if you don't, what the hell! You don't vote in Newburyport, anyway...
Apparently M. Stalin is convinced that even the few foreign technicians who have been imported to teach Russians the tricks of industrial trades now constitute a counter-revolutionary menace and are subsidized by the Capitalist Powers...
Hans Neudorf, physical culture expert, will take the part of "The Wrestler" in the play. In addition to Mr. Neudorf, there is Ricard Boonisar '29, a pure blooded Assyrian, who will teach the cast how to pronounce difficult Arabian names. The pronunciation of such words as "eyewallah", "istagfarrulah", "marshalla", and "saleikum" puzzled the play-producers and began to loom up as an unsurmountable obstacle, until the bio-linguist Boonisar was discovered. He came to the aid of the perplexed actors, and for the past week has been drilling the cast of "Hassan" it the intricacies of oriental speech...