Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippi. Dave Harris, black and 35, was suspected of stealing groceries from the Clayton Funderberg farm near Rosedale. Young Clayton Funderberg, 17, with two friends marched out with shotguns to the Harris cabin to "teach that damn nigger a lesson." Harris met them with a volley of buckshot, dropped Clayton dead in his tracks, fled for the Mississippi swamps. All night 200 men and boys searched for him, found him at dawn, cringing in an empty barn. They lugged him up to the levee, mocked his yammerings for mercy. "De Lord save me-" cried Harris as guns cracked about...
...less variety and more depth, fewer subjects and more time given to them. And language courses should be carried to a farther degree than at present before college entrance; although all of us know that a modern language, and especially French, is probably the most difficult thing to teach adequately. If Mathematics, English, and one foreign language, (preferably Latin for arts students) are soundly done--so that the college can at once begin advanced work in these lines, the "hobby" subjects will have their chance also, in an ancillary or cooperative capacity...
...still bore their students; when university statisticians reckon in card catalogues the efficiency records of the faculty members, it is good to recall the impression that "Copey" has left upon these decades of Harvard men. He taught few classes, and limited their membership; but how the man could teach! N. Y. Herald Tribune...
Thus, with prejudice and the precedent of failure to overcome, the authors of "Magazine Article Writing" deserve extra congratulations for the work they have turned out. They both either lecture or teach at Columbia University, yet manage to keep their ears very close to Fleet Street. They get down to brass tacks at the outset, and keep themselves right at work in a businesslike, lucid manner, until they have led the reader through the various processes of article writing, recognizing and planning material, writing, and getting the work printed. There are chapters on various types of articles, interviews, biography, book...
...that he is a "private citizen" deserving no public attention. Smaller than Brother Herbert, Brother Ted is short and stocky, with features and expressions about the eyes and mouth that resemble the President's. He, too, made money as a mining engineer, retired to Palo Alto to teach. Bronchitis kept him from the inaugural...