Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crimson as it has and has not set before. Thus, the situation is stabilized, crystallized and clarified, and there is nothing ahead but the perfectly perfunctory task of turning out a so-called eleven, consisting of fifteen or twenty men, who will humiliate Yale and annihilate Princeton and teach the minor opponents a thing...
...place in the humorist's schedule. Whenever the public mouth seems inclined to relax to a comfortable position, a letter in pidgin English restores to it the contortion of lips which passes current for an appreciation of humor. Certain Japanese, with the connivance of Americans, are trying to teach in their schools English "as is" English...
Some 55 years ago, a sickly English boy was shipped by his family out to Natal, South Africa, to live with his older brother there and build up his constitution. That was the beginning of a longish story that empire-building Britons now teach their children very early in life. The sickly young man dug diamonds, bags of them, at Kimberly. As he dug, his health returned. At 19, he was a 19th Century Croesus with his life before...
...York Times of yesterday contained the startling headline "Follies Girls Teach Columbia's Crew". News of this sort can't be passed by with the yawn one gives the stock quotations or the latest revolution in Guatemala. Such a headline has all the marks of the advertising man's handiwork. The attention-compelling novelty of the idea makes one read on and on--to see just what it is the Follies girls teach Columbia's crew...
...Thomas wants to criticize American universities," asked one army officer, "why does he not maintain some sort of consistency at least for the duration of a single interview? Why does he advocate 'real freedom of speech' for teachers and permission for them to teach their own views, and then turn right about and oppose the same freedom of teaching by military men because 'the attitude toward life of the army officers in control of the R. O. T. C. is certain to communicate itself, in a certain extent, to the students...