Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present day believe, that science has its limits and cannot explain the whole of life: if it should be true that, in addition to the world of external nature which science is learning to control, there is also a world of internal nature which religion or philosophy must teach the individual to control, then education cannot rest content with half of life, but must attempt to teach the whole...
...present time, when organized religion has ceased to command the allegiance of large numbers of students, it becomes urgently necessary that the college teach the business of life in all its aspects. In view of the current conflict between religion and science, a general knowledge of philosophy is equally important to the educated men as a general knowledge of science. The committee recommends, therefore, that a course in Philosophy be made a requirement for distribution without the alternative of Mathematics...
...Eastman will teach biography, and other literature, advanced composition and religious drama...
...than a man whose activities have been chiefly scholastic It is true also that many people who are engaging tutors feel that mere scholastic ability is not of the highest merit. They are mostly interested in a person of a strong, virile personality, who can inspire as well as teach, than they are in the man who may have greater knowledge but less ability to impart it. A men's scholarship in applying for a position as tutor, should be satisfactory; unfortunately, perhaps, it is not always required to be high...
...reality in the passing below the cemetery. And then, refreshed, they went home to dream of pastures pekinese and anti-poodle, pastures fairer than Charmington and much more honest. And they remembered the joke which has long made Charmington famous, a remark of Cartrack herself--"You can't teach a pekinese new profanity...