Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn a new method of artificial respiration. The Army, Navy and Air Force, the American Red Cross, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts and the A.M.A. have all agreed to abandon the "Schafer prone-pressure" method which has been in use for two generations. Instead, they will teach first-aid workers the "back-pressure, arm-lift" method...
...Virginia fired a resounding blast last week against an old U.S. ideal. "In our enthusiasm for mass education," said Darden, "we have overdone it. By keeping inferior students in high school, we have watered down the educational job we could do for good students . . . We imposed on the teaching profession a grand and glorified day nursery. They are not running scholarly institutions." Darden's recommendation: "Return to public education as Jefferson saw it... Teach every child to read and write. After that ... we must leave public education open to the competent students . . . But we need not coddle the incompetent...
...best things here," said instructor Charles H. Olmsted, formerly a member of the English department at the University of Iowa, "is the freedom that instructors have to teach in their own ways, but within the broad limits of the department...
...these activities, Father Feeney was expelled from the Jesuit order. Archbishop Richard J. Cushing silenced him, and put St. Benedict's under interdict. By silencing is meant that Father Feeney is not allowed to preach or teach until the ban is lifted. With St. Benedict's under interdict, anyone who goes there is denied the sacraments of the Church and cannot receive the Holy Eucharist...
Addressing an overflow audience at the last of this fall's Leatherbee Lectures, Donham declared that business education must teach them to "relate themselves and their interests to those of the rest of the community." He decried business education which educated solely "for making money...