Word: teach
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...taught to row in such bad form and on such wrong principles that, on becoming candidates for the University, they are actually at a disadvantage when compared with the tyros. To obviate this, the captain of the University authorizes us to say, that he will be most glad to teach the captains of the several clubs the stroke adopted by his crew, that they may this year be able to properly coach their men and render them of permanent use. Moreover, as a coxswain has now become a part of the University crew, we must look to the clubs...
...Teach thee...
...Contrary to the usual practice, no students of Middlebury College are allowed to teach during this winter...
...orator tells us that "a Longfellow sings in simplicity, and as the belligerent storms gather in the northern heaven, a Stonewall Jackson unsheathes his sacred sword." Both succeeded because "labor, continuous labor, was their motto," and without this no one can succeed. "Cross Plains needed some person to teach her sons and daughters this, and when they employed this modern 'Socrates,' it was the right man in the right place." The modern Socrates is the "stern, inflexible father and teacher, President John M. Walton," whose "fame has spread like the little cloud that arose out of the Arabian deserts...
...good knowledge of the events of a hundred years ago, that knowledge helps us but little in understanding the occurrences of to-day. What seems to be needed, then, as a supplement to the history courses now offered is a course in present constitutional history, - a course which shall teach the different forms of government now in use among the chief nations of the world. A more attractive course than that would be which should deal with the present mode of government in England, France, Germany, and Russia could not be given in history, and it would be difficult...