Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring the student into closer contact with his mentors. But outside Harvard, in the majority of great universities, opportunity for intimacy is small and immensity has crushed personal contact, admitted to be the most valuable bond between those who want to learn and those whose duty it is to teach...
...Useful accomplishments are just as easy to teach as those that have no utility except the pleasure they give such as 'pat-a-cake' or 'How big is baby?' A number of tricks that a small baby can learn are helpful in keeping him safe and well...
...appointed time, those who have the call to teach descend from their citadel. ... An All Souls in every American university . . . might conceivably change the course of American civilization for the better...
...mask ... I am not afraid to meet you face to face.'" She finds in 1914 that the crisis she must meet is complicated by the fact that Marc, her illegitimate son, is old enough not to feel the need for maternal intimacy. She goes away from Paris to teach in a country academy, leaving Marc in the city with her sister, Sylvie. She becomes involved in a friendship between Germain de Chavannes and a young German prisoner. At great risk, she unites these two, helping the German to escape to Switzerland. In so doing she increases the hostility between...
...first group of courses includes those in English composition, of which there are many, adapted to students of all degrees of maturity and proficiency. Inasmuch as writing is an art, which means doing rather than knowing, and as the function of a university is primarily to teach knowledge, no student is permitted to offer for the degree an unlimited number of these courses. But nearly all of the other courses require such individual reaction to what has been learned, and such self-expression, as is involved by writing about...