Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reports from England revealed that attention had been turned to an educational problem as old as Robin Hood-the schooling of England's 100,000 or more gypsy children. The Surrey County Council opened a peripatetic school, with a master and mistress, to teach them, besides the three R's, crafts like basket-weaving, rug-making, woodworking, gardening. The "school house" was pitched in open country near a large gypsy encampment and though attendance was distinctly voluntary, 40 pupils enrolled the first...
...Democratic leaders are not great enough to forego a small profit for a chance of a greater, to swing a united party behind them into the battle line and lay the fortunes of their party upon the lap of the gods. They have no great benefactor of mankind to teach us new dissatisfactions?the stuff of which our issues are made...
Taking his doctor's degree with great distinction, he attained by far the highest rank in his class. Since leaving the Law School, he has been in Washington where he has acted as secretary to Mr. Justice Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court. Assistant Professor Landis will teach a section in first year Contracts and conduct a course in second year Contracts...
...notion that the taught may somewhat teach their teachers ? a notion that went out of fashion as formal universities came in at the end of the Middle Ages, but which has been revived of recent years ? was reiterated last week by ten Harvard undergraduates who submitted the fruits of a five-month scrutiny of the socioeducational plant and plan to which they had submitted their so-called formative years. Unlike similar surveys lately made at Dartmouth and Bowdoin, the young Harvard gentlemen had been urged to their task by no authority higher than their own creative curiosity. They...
Missionaries. "Your missionaries who come to teach us are generally of a type who could not earn a living another way and are unfit to teach us Christianity. Some of them are admirable men, but I speak of the average, mediocre in mental calibre and unequipped intellectually to carry on the work," said Amherst-educated Count Aisuke Kabayama, member of the Japanese House of Peers, last week as he prepared to travel, via the U.S., for the coming Parliamentary Congress in London. A baptized member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he finds good in both Buddhism and Christianity...