Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastman Professorship was established by the late George Eastman in 1930. Its purpose is to send American professors to teach at Oxford...
...through the development of each girl can be traced the steady development of the college. Sarah Lawrence has found that these methods of education do work, that its students can be trusted with a voice in the formation of rules and curriculum, and that its instructors feel they can teach better and even learn more without the bonds of a strict syllabus. Sarah Lawrence glances around at the changes is College education since it appeared on the American scene and cockily comments, "Harvard is little by little coming around to the Sarah Lawrence trail...
...light of recent University policy, one is inclined to agree. Sarah Lawrence discovered long ago the best way to teach an individual effectively. . . . a personal and individual tutorial. The Administration also has offices in the dorms, creating a centralized "House system...
...were so popular that people had to come an hour early to get seats; he drew large crowds from other parishes (which did not make him popu lar with their priests). After nine months, Peoria's Bishop Dunne called Sheen and told him that he was to go teach at Catholic University. "I promised you to them three years ago, but everyone said you'd gotten so high-hat in Europe that you wouldn't take orders any more. But you've been a good boy, so run along." In & Out of the Basement. Sheen...
...Ellison's Harlem scenes are done with dash and flavor, and the lingo is right: "Well, git with it! ... You digging me, daddy? Haw, but look me up sometimes, I'm a piano player and a rounder, a whisky drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em." Author Ellison knows all about the mountebanks and charlatans, political and otherwise, who prosper in Harlem, and his examples (especially Ras the Exhorter, who fancies himself as a black Messiah) are richly drawn. The book's final scene...