Word: instruction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth. What was striking about the Dartmouth announcement was the teacher designated. He is Dr. S. L. Joshi, native of India, graduate of a Mohammedan university, postgraduate student in England, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary. Lately he has been on the staff of the University of Colorado. He will instruct Dartmouth men in Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islamism, recognizing religion as a central factor in human development, presumably conducting a comparative examination with cultural detachment rare among less widely traveled professors...
That the Graduate School is now able to further such a lifting of standards in education is most encouraging. An ancient sage whose name has long been associated with higher education considered it his grandest duty to instruct the youth of Athens. Too little respect has centered about those who have, in this particular tradition, followed Socrates. The Graduate School of Education at Harvard will surely induce more to respect the educator by making him respect his degree...
...athletic competition known to man. It traces back to the spear throwing days of the Vikings when javelins were thrown from ship to ship as implements of warfare. Even further back, as long ago as 400 B. C., historians tell us that the Roman armies had special coaches to instruct in the javelin throw. Today the athlete throws a spear which weighs 800 grams or 1 pound 12 1-2 ounces; in the pre-Christian era the spears weighted about 400 grams and were thrown with the aid of a piece of string in order to get greater distance...
...Only by such means can the Freshman class be kept within the limit of 1,000, the maximum which the college is able to instruct effectively and to assimilate socially. The practical result of the discrimination against commuters will probably be to excude some of the less able among the young men who come from the Jewish quarter of Boston; but President Lowell, while standing as always against mere racial discrimination, is convinced that it is justified. Of late years there has been an antagonistic grouping of undergraduates as prejudicial to the members of the group as to the college...
...strenuous effort is being made to make the surroundings beautiful and to keep the atmosphere of the place from being one of money-getting. A number of men of professorial rank have been devoting themselves to business research for the last two years, and will be prepared to instruct the growing number of men in the science of business, rather than ways of quickly accumulating a fortune...