Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank J. Goodnow, President of Johns Hopkins, took occasion in his commencement address to plead for " academic freedom " in American universities, and to condemn the " recent tendency which has been directed towards dictating to those who teach what they shall and shall not teach, and towards excluding from textbooks matter believed to be objectionable." The Hirshfields and Atwoods are apparently to have opposition they will scarcely be able to meet...
Most of the visiting professors are leaving America very shortly, but many will remain to teach at the summer sessions of various colleges in this country. Among the latter will be Professor R. W. Bond of Nottingham University College who, although still in New York, will soon arrive in Cambridge to give courses in English at the University Summer School. Professor F. S. Boas, who is President of the English Branch of the Association, will teach at the University of Chicago, and Professor H. J. C. Grierson of Edinburgh University at Cornell. Professor A. E. Morgan of the University College...
President Wilson's first statement of policy was an anticlassical proclamation. " The Classic languages said the new President, " are dead issues. There is no necessity for their inclusion in the curriculum here. It is my intention to teach the children of the farm how to raise better hogs and produce more cotton per acre; that is the reason they are here...
...card intelligently " will be offered, and a model packing plant may be installed. The President sums it all up thus: " Practical demonstration of the theoretical is my first aim for the college." And apparently he believes in the corollary: if you can't demonstrate it, don't teach...
...constituted as a center of higher studies in international law, public and private, and cognate sciences, in order to facilitate a thorough and impartial examination of questions bearing on international juridical relamen of the various states will be intions. To this end, the most competent vited to teach, through regular courses, lectures, or seminars, the most important matters, from the point of view of theory and practice, of international legislation and jurisprudence, such as result inter alia from deliberations of the conferences and arbitral awards...