Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learn the intricacies of Harvard College and to teach the intricacies of English history was, in brief, the work which Mr. Kenneth K. M. Leys, first exchange tutor from Oxford University, found cut out for him when he arrived in Cambridge at the end of September. According to the agreement made by President Lowell last winter he was to stay until the end of the first term at which time his colleague at University College would replace him. After a stay of a scant three months, then, Mr. Leys leaves Cambridge tomorrow to sail for England. All those who have...
...life " ; pressed a telegraph key unveiling milestone marking the western terminus of the Lee Highway at San Diego, Calif.; prepared to receive a snow-white collie for the White House kennels, from Oshkosh, Wis. ; banished Peter Pan, Presidential wire haired fox terrier, until his private secretary, Mr. Clark, could teach the dog not to howl at night; heard that Mrs. Coolidge had accepted a canary from the American Canary Breeders' Association; received an invitation to attend the annual football game of his alma mater, Amherst, with Williams at Williamstown; wired back: "Regret I cannot accept your invitation. Am sure...
...Education vs. Instruction. "It's a great error on the part of teachers to try to give their students instruction. The days of instruction are numbered. You can't teach young men of college age. But you can give them an opportunity to learn...
...expected to replace pre-examination cramming, and a diploma is to be earned "by honest work from day to day and month to month." Moreover it is proposed that a "B" standing in this daily work be required. The latter requirement is, perhaps, necessary if Columbia wishes to teach those alone who have a "B desire" to learn. But obviously the plan must include some system of frequent classroom examinations or quisses to determine who does and who does not possess that desire. And furthermore to make the diploma really valuable, it must include some form of general examination...
...Gerald Crittenden, an able advocate of the worth of the liberal college, states this most emphatically in an article which he contributes to the November number of Scribner's. According to him the liberal college will speak to its prospective students in some such terms as this: "What we teach you here will not assure you of a job when you leave us, or even add one dollar to your income. In lieu of material advantage we offer you the chance to make your mind hospitable to new ideas and tenacious of the good in human nature...