Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many students have come in contact with Professor Albert Feuillerat in his half-year of teaching at the University, and have admired his knowledge and his personality. That he found his students "intelligent and responsive" is proof enough that he knew well how to teach and to direct them. His presence at the University adds to the favorable impression which the system of exchange professorships has already created...
...said will destroy the "aristocracy of brains" and "reduce exisiting universities to mere laboratories for the lecture publisher" will attract the eager attention of everyone who seeks a now way to learn old facts. The plan of the People's Institute, which will direct the publication is to teach the public at large the academic, or so-called "cultural" subjects by means of constantly revised and modernized lectures by some of the best teachers, printed and broadcasted in a convenient form...
Harvard's early contributions to the scientific teaching of law and medicine are excellently sketched in "Old Times at the Law School" and "Hospital Surgeons of 1775." As a lawyer himself Mr. Batchelder dwells with especial interest upon the remarkable development of legal teaching through a long period when the prevailing opinion was that in law there was "nothing to teach" but only something to be learned by practice. His tribute to Professor Langdell is that of an enthusiastic pupil and an affectionate friend...
...things as these, but because she has brought misfortune to the king her husband, whom she loved, and to her two sons. Hers is the tragedy of the too beautiful woman; there was no need for Masefield to interweave with hers the story of Helen and of Nireus to teach us that. And yet it was some recompense that men should say of her that she was beautiful and a king's daughter...
...time the course was abolished it was generally thought in the University that the reason for its discontinuance was President Lowell's disapproval. President Lowell, it was said, objected to the course on the ethical and moral ground that it was wrong to teach men of arguing both sides of the same question...