Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of Manhattan reformers called the Committee of Fifteen. After a brief return engagement at Columbia, he headed west ("You are making a great mistake," cried Nicholas Murray Butler). He taught at Nebraska, in Texas, in Chicago, became head of the economics department at Stanford, finally returned east to teach at Cornell. With Walter Lippmann, he also became one of the first editors of the New Republic. Then in 1919 he turned to a brand-new career...
Such College standbys as Humanities 4--Ideas of Good and Evil in Western Literature--Natural Sciences 4--The Nature and Growth of the Physical Sciences--are given as extension courses by the same professors who teach them to undergraduates. Peculiar to the extension plan is a basic course in botany which takes four years to complete. Each year's work is complete in itself, however...
Until the late '30s he tutored at the New Preparatory School. "I did a tremendous amount of tutoring. Very frequently I would teach mornings in the public schools, tutor all afternoon at New Preparatory, and instruct individuals in the evening so when you find me working in City Hall at 9 o'clock at night, it's not unusual...
...dignify even a confessions magazine." Last week he corrected the mistake. He shortened Tan Confessions' title to Tan, changed it from a true-confessions monthly to a service magazine for Negro women. In its first issue, Tan has everything from articles on "How Club Women Should Dress" and "Teach Your Child to Value Money" to fashions, health, home furnishings and recipes. By running fiction he expects to hold on to his old readers, add thousands of Negro housewives, who will now have a service magazine of their...
...Federal judges, not the members of the judiciary in most states; judges are not subject to recall for their decisions. Why? Because we are all convinced you cannot have justice administered under pressure, under social duress, under fear. The same is true of scholarly investigation, of collegiate and professional teaching. Life tenure for the older men, freedom for the staff to speak as citizens, as well as freedom to investigate and teach are the essence of a university. The greatest single source of strength of this University, I believe, is the fact that the nature of a professor's calling...