Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never gone beyond high school, had never been to Wooster or Ohio State, and the Christie Co. that recommended him simply did not exist. Why had he taken on another man's name and record? It was, said Hewitt, "a compulsion. I always wanted to teach...
Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government and lecturer in 1b upheld the present system. He said last night that it is better to teach institutional government before theory...
...most painful aspect" of teaching in the U.S., said Teacher MacDonald, is "the fight put up by the children against being educated." She blamed their boisterousness on the American desire to win ("If you make it almost impossible for [the teacher] to teach, you win"), and on "the educational theory, very strong in America, that no child should be thwarted or suppressed in any way." Miss MacDonald, by her own account, believes in "spankable little bottoms." Denied that privilege, she found the "young fiends" of eleven difficult to control...
...Grade-school children in Chicago were playing a new numbers game: I Win, a close cousin to rummy, which is supposed to teach them arithmetic. Invented by Gertrude Gebbie, an accountant who wanted to help "children who don't have the patience to learn by rote," / Win has the approval of the Chicago board of education, sells retail at 75? a deck. Half a million decks are already...
...Arts 13, though excellent in many respects, has proved to be both the beginning and the end of most students' experience in the arts. The gap was only partially filled two years ago, when the department added Fine Arts 14 to the catalogue. With a new professor appointed to teach it, end a fresh, interpretive approach to original works of art, Fine Arts 14 provided another source of interest for the undergraduate. By appointing a man who was interested in teaching at the introductory levels, the department took a decisive step towards improvement. Unfortunately, this professor has left the College...