Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undoubtedly come to stay. Some abuses and perils which it were short-sighted to deny have crept in. What is needed is to apply to each particular case some of the results of the analysis which we have attempted to present. As the years roll by, experience will teach us to what classes of commodities and to what strata of society installment selling is economically applicable. In the course of time outworn methods will be discarded and new abuses will undoubtedly appear. Is it not the part of wisdom to separate the chaff from the grain...
...Motive: To teach fancy dishes to U. S. private cooks and to teach U. S. dishes to tyro foreigners. Also to improve U. S. housewives. Also to build goodwill for the New York Herald-Tribune...
...observation has been that the law schools are endeavoring to teach their students not only the fundamental principles of the law, but they are also developing a capacity to express one's thoughts accurately, Society looks to the lawyer for constructive leadership. Twenty one out of the twenty nine of our Presidents have been lawyers, and a very large proportion of the members of our Congress and of our several state legislatures are now and always have been lawyers...
...undergraduate's attitude toward the fine arts and college courses in art. In 1873 when Mr. Norton was appointed a "Lecturer on the History of the Fine Arts as connected with Literature," the University, as in the case of most other American universities, made little organized effort to teach either practice in or appreciation of art. That year marked the beginning of a program which was culminated this year in the opening of the New Fogg Museum With Mr. Norton giving a course in the history of fine arts--a course which, it is to be noted, still subordinates...
...sustains her hatred of life upon meager leathery biscuits. The house is overun with savage dogs, the descendants of the hounds with which Theodosia's uncle had once hunted across the wide fields. At last, drugged with horror, Theodosia goes into the back country to teach school. Hearing the small voices of children and the strong sounds of secure life, she begins to recover her poise. "She heard the noises of the night, the tree-frogs and crickets, the frogs at the wet place beyond the milk house. . .-. The leaves of the poplar tree lifted and turned swaying outward...