Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senses? The pupil must, of course, know his arithmetic, reading and spelling, history, geography, and natural sciences, taught in their simple relations. But Dr. Eliot's program goes farther: it seeks to awaken the pupil's interest, to cultivate the power of seeing and describing, to teach manual dexterity and expression by word and musical note; above all, to develop individuality rather than to compress into uniformity. It is ambitious; it does not meet the plea for greater economy. But unlike the other programs, it considers the child. In the tender years when the nature of the child is expanding...
...Wagnerian Opera Festival should teach a lesson to producers of opera: You can't go out and pick up an orchestra as you would a pair of shoes. The singers are in most respects excellent artists. One could easily call them outright a great troupe if it were not for the matter of acoustics. The Germans are playing at the Manhattan Opera House. Vocalists may have beautiful, ringing tone in that auditorium, which in another theatre they lack. But the singers of the Wagnerian Festival seem excellent, notably the baritone Schorr. By comparison they have made the orchestra...
Since the College gives training of a general nature, it has come to see the need of some further guide to the student in making his selection of future work. The "University Appointment Office" finds positions for men who intend to teach, and the "University Employment Bureau" gives opportunity for summer and incidental work. In another section of the CRIMSON there appears a notice from the "Alumni Association Appointment Bureau", covering a still different field. But the work of these three is practical and immediate, and cannot concern itself with guiding a man to his best-suited career. The primary...
...Commencement many years ago Lord Playfair quoted the saying that the function of the two great English universities was to teach men to spend, that of the Scotch universities to teach them to earn, an income respectably; and he added that American universities existed for both of those objects. This cryptic remark might be the subject of endless discussion. The aim of the American college should be, not to give its students the technical training and tools of their future occupation, but rather to fit them to be citizens, to develop those qualities that lead to the better life both...
...more cogent is the gradual realization that all professors and school masters are not absent minded nonentities, and that the real need is not merely for men but men who have done things. The professions most frequently ridiculed are the very ones which need the best material, and school teaching is no exception. Those who teach because they can do nothing else, fall notoriously in that, as every school boy knows. Only too often, however, necessity leaves to them the payment of "the eternal debt of age to youth--education...