Word: versa
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...bulletin issued recently by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching proposes a plan for a permanent arrangement by which teachers of the United States shall be assigned for a year or half-year to schools in Prussia, and vice versa. The instruction to be given by the exchange teacher is the teaching of his own language in a conversational way. He must be a college or university graduate and have been a teacher, though not necessarily of language, for at least a year. His living expenses will be paid by the government of the country to which...
...like Roosevelt and several others, to whom posterity will doubtless grant at least a modest share in the making of present day America. The fundamental fallacy of the captain's reasoning is the assumption that the life of action is necessarily dissociated from the life of contemplation, and vice versa. R. Altrocchi's "Western Fable" is impressive. "Old Doc. Barber" has a dramatic way of telling his story and his simple, if uncouth, language adds force to the moral. The point of the story, though not novel, is certainly unusual. It reminds one of Bret Harte, or to compare small...
...Journalism tends to make politics and politics make government, which is a high enough object for any man to strive to improve. Politics and journalism go hand in hand, and the one reacts upon the other. A low condition of politics means a low condition of journalism and vice versa. If we are endeavoring to reach politics through journalism the educated man should as soon as possible eliminate the disturbing quality of personality. Personality should be subordinated to the ideal, and we should look at public questions in the free light of reason, logic, and principles
...weight in the stern, Coach Perkins having taken the coxswain's seat, and on this account were unable to keep up and finished three lengths behind. Coach Higginson yesterday made a special efforts to get the men accustomed to raising the stroke when rowing particularly hard, and vice versa...