Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dartmouth is today one of the outstanding examples of liberalism in college administration. Its present, Ernest Martin Hopkins, has repeatedly taken a militant stand in behalf of free speech. "It turning handsprings on top of the college gymnasium would teach men to think," he told me, "I would be perfectly willing to do it." When William Z. Foster was invited by the Dartmouth Round Table to speak on the left-wing movement of labor, President Hopkins said: "Personally I am opposed to Foster. I think that he has not used his influence and power wisely and has sometimes misled...
...plea for the professional coach has been that he knows baseball more thoroughly and can teach it more effectively than the amateur possible can. This may very likely be true, but twelve years of professional coaching have brought Harvard seven defeats and five victories against Yale. Judging from percentages, the only way that a professional does judge the professional coaching system has not been a success...
...McCumber Tariff "an offense to every consumer in the U. S.," and described it as "an act to obstruct our foreign commerce, to increase the prices of what the farmer buys and to reduce the prices of what he sells. ... I am here primarily to learn rather than to teach. ... I am not a dirt farmer nor a pictorial farmer." He recalled Mr. Dawes' suggestion for a com mission to investigate and recommend remedies. "It has not even the merit of novelty!" he exclaimed. "I can smell the moth balls now." He concluded: "We undertake: "To adopt an international...
Chicago Tribune: "If the people of Chicago want inferiority stamped on their children they will tolerate a system which does not teach reading, writing and simple arithmetic. That is a good way to make the American heritage of these children the pick and washtub...
...distributed. As the band played extracts from 100 different selections, the game was to jot down the name of the selection. The results were surprising in their excellence; almost all the scores were creditable. "How do you account for it?" an official was asked. "The movies," said he. "They teach people music. The day has gone by when the girl at the piano could play Aint We Got Fun? as the aged mother passed away, or I Want a Daddy Who Will Rock Me to Sleep when the villain was in the heroine's boudoir. The music fits...