Word: teachings
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...famous 18th century satire against facile optimism and idealism, Voltaire had guileless young Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, teach him that this is the best of all possible worlds. Chanting his faith, he and his tutor and his sweetheart Cunegonde are catapulted from one misfortune to the next, witnessing or enduring in 20 pages more crime, misery and calamity than exist in all Greek tragedy; in fact, Candide himself, "the mildest man in the world," is constantly killing people. At long last he is led from idealism to the commonsense of keeping strictly to his own concerns, of cultivating...
Speaking before an enthusiastic gathering at the Sunday night Hillel lecture series on the problem of "Religious Commitment and the Higher Education," White said that he would be disappointed if a Divinity School at a secular university such as Harvard couldn't ideally teach other religious than Protestantism...
...death of world-respected Professor Derwent S. Whittlesey leaves Harvard without a faculty member to teach geography. His death may mark the end of geography at the University, for although Professor Whittlesey had announced that he would retire this June, the Administration reportedly had taken no steps to replace...
...least two geographers, one to fill Professor Whittlesey's chair, should be brought here to teach. This inexpensive and mild expansion would facilitate study in other fields, contribute to the liberal education of a good number of students, and help ease the American need for geographers...
...press DePinto too hard to get him back into the uniform which he has worn since 1936, when at the age of 12, Bill Tabler, then the drum major for the Band, saw him doing figure eights with a piece of pipe and promptly decided to teach him the fine art of twirling...