Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Avenue Presbyterian Church. As chairman of the Board of Preachers. Buttrick will conduct services in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard; as Plummer professor of Christian morals, he will teach the New Testament to undergraduates, will also teach in Harvard Divinity School...
...thoroughbred's breeding, consistency and condition, its ability to carry the assigned weight, the skill of the jockey and the ability of the trainer. Then he must learn how to check his judgment in the paddock. Does his horse look nervous? anxious to run? Matheson, says Matheson, can teach the student how to tell...
...Between his race bets and his classes, which he handles with the silky self-assurance of a side-show barker, he makes a nice living doing what he likes most to do. He is not even bothered by the inevitable wise guy who asks him why he needs to teach if he can really run up big profits at the track. "This is just an excuse to get horse players together so I can sell the idea of a U.S. Sweepstakes," says the professor glibly. "A sweepstakes is just what this country needs. It would reduce the national debt...
Maryland was not alone in plotting new directions. Last week the University of Chicago, which has long given short shrift to teacher training, announced that teachers, and students preparing to teach, would henceforth only have to pay half tuition...
...rather plain Venus in a gown, bending to teach her little boy how to nock an arrow. The playfulness of the piece in no way modifies its classic harmony...