Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that only one out of three high school graduates has had a year of chemistry, only one out of four has taken a year of physics. There is a current shortage of more than 8,000 high school science teachers and yet-of the 5,000 graduates prepared to teach science last year-2,000 went into industrial jobs rather than the classroom...All the 48 states now promote the teaching of home economics, agriculture and distributive trades. Only eight states, however, had special directors or units last year to foster and improve the teaching of science and mathematics...
...strongly that an executive is better off in a company school, where he can learn more lessons immediately valuable to his firm. They insist that picking out a few men to go off to school while the others mind the store is bad for morale. Burroughs Corp. prefers to teach executives in its own way rather than have them go off to school and pick up ideas that might not fit into the company's scheme. Furthermore, since executive training has become so popular, some companies feel that many colleges have set up inferior courses just...
...degree. Last week, when Columbia filed suit against him for $1,000 for repayment of a student loan, Jacobsen lashed back with a suit of his own. Columbia, he said in court, is guilty of "false representation" for not telling him that "it was not equipped to teach pure reason"-and wisdom. Jacobsen demanded $2,000 for every year he wasted at the college, plus cancellation of his $1,000 debt, plus $1,000 for the tuition had paid and $16 for legal expenses. Speaking for the college, Dean Lawrence Chamberlain said that wisdom is only "a hoped...
...shall not do manual work, the colonel now decides that they shall. They shall do it, he announces, to the horror of his subordinates, because the British prisoners are not going to sabotage the bridge; they are going to build it; and in building it, they will not only "teach these Japanese a lesson," they will build the health and the morale of the entire battalion...
Professor MacLeish will continue to teach his creative writing course, English S, and will teach another course as yet unformulated by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...