Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...imagined. Late to arrive, they went to work without any controlling head, and their hose was so poor that it broke twice. Much furniture was destroyed by being thrown recklessly out of the windows, while a great deal was injured by water. The lesson that this fire should teach the Corporation is very evident. Although they are willing to run the risk of financial loss from fire, they are bound to consider the number of lives that they are responsible for; they are bound to do all in their power to prevent such a calamity as the burning...
...last Wednesday, the day appointed for the beginning of Chinese instruction at Harvard, no applicants made their appearance, and the first recitation was indefinitely postponed. This is owing to the fact that the language which our new professor is sent here to teach is the Mandarin, the language of Chinese nobles and officials, and the vehicle of the literature of the country. Mandarin is of no use to the few Harvard students who wish to study Chinese, since they would come in contact only with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself...
SEVEN professors, seven assistant professors, and eight tutors - twenty-two in all - teach in the Annex. These gentlemen would be overworked, if change of employment were not in itself a recreation...
...teach non-sectarian theology, you must teach only the things which no sect rejects. Your only escape from this difficulty lies in throwing down the dogmas before the student, and bidding him choose for himself. We grant that some subjects may be taught in this way, but surely not theology. . . . Few religious men like to see theological teaching converted into an exercise for sharpening the wits, or would like to see young men exposed to the influence of professors who took half a dozen different views of the Trinity and the Atonement...
...called science of religions, or that the history of the development of theological doctrines and religious sects, may be taught according to a purely historic method, - that is, in a non-sectarian manner. Instruction in these subjects may very properly form part of a scheme of university teaching. But the function of a divinity school is to teach other things in addition to these, in order to prepare its students for the ministry. Its teachers cannot help teaching sectarian theology. . . . That part of the community which regards Harvard College as a national institution . . . cannot but feel a deep regret...