Word: taught
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Another item of some interest in connection with the examination this year was the discovery that 11 per cent of the Freshmen were quite unable to swim. Under the requirement of physical exercises, this 11 per cent will be taught to swim during the Freshman year...
...this purpose $2,000,000 still remained unexpended and the War Council has decided that the best use for this money will be to apply it to the education of the thousands of ex-service men to whom the war has taught the necessity of a complete education, particularly along technical and mechanical lines...
Apparently such a course of inaction can be explained in but two ways: either the war has not taught us anything worth adopting, or else we have not been keen enough to profit from its lessons. Is it again a case of "Harvard indifference," or is there a deeper reason than appears on the surface...
...these coaches had been out of college for varying periods of time and had been taught rowing in different schools, the instruction they gave differed in many points from that of the head coach. It was decided at that time to take steps toward a uniformity of instruction that would train the men in the class, dormitory, and club crews in a stroke identical with that taught the University oarsmen...
Something over a year ago the people of this country were looking toward peace as to the Millenium. The end of hostilities was to be the panacea for all wrong; the nation was to settle down, and with a clean slate start anew. The war had taught us lessons in patriotism, co-operation and economy. One of its dearly-bought advantages was to be a national house-cleaning. The old order was dead, and we were going through fire that a newer and cleaner order might arise from its ashes...