Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Associate Professor Robert Dudley French of the English department is a teaching professor as well as a scholar. Graduated from Yale in 1910, he returned to teach in 1915. In 1920 he took over a Chaucer course, brushed up its fustiness, livened it, taught it well, increasing the enrolment from 30 to 300 in nine years...
...Sheldon Jackson, working for the U. S. Bureau of Education in Alaska, became worried about the Eskimos; they were starving. He imported from Siberia a herd of 1,280 reindeer, and some Lapp herdsmen to teach the Eskimos how to tend them.* The Eskimos, natural hunters and trappers, but with little talent for agriculture, were not successful. Carl Lomen noticed this. He wanted to try his hand with reindeer but found that by Government decree no white man could engage in the industry. He learned, however, that the Government would allow a certain contract, due to expire...
Bethel Church's director of education. Orville Brummer, resigned with Pastor Helm. Said he: "Since it is finally impossible to teach children much more at any given time than their seniors will practice, I despair of any large scale success in teaching children principles of brotherhood in an exclusive church...
...capital, Madrid, and to the largest commercial center, Barcelona, the result being that only 400 students occupy the tremendous and ancient buildings at Salamanca. One of the most remarkable things about these Spanish Universities is that it is only within the last few years that they have started to teach modern languages. Tied up, as they have been, with tradition, they have taught Arabic, Greek, and Latin as the standard course up to the present...
...this work is to teach men how, to study rather than to prepare them for specific examinations. Assistance may be had in various fields, among them Government, History, Economics, Romance Languages, Fine Arts, Mathematics, and Classics...