Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been well said that "he who drinks from one occupied in learning drinks from a running stream; he who learns from one who has already learned all he has to teach, drinks the 'green mantic of the stagnant pool...
...Frenchwoman. When Bill takes a good look at Manon, jumps the yacht on which he has been a guest in order to marry her and help her change her life, M. Delaroch assumes a more active role. He blocks the Carey passports, lures Bill into the jungle, tries to teach Manon the virtues of passivity. But Manon, who has taken a good look at Bill, knows what she wants...
...home-going Congressmen who voted for Relief restrictions,* said that the sudden cut-off in Government spending was like pushing the country off a precipice. She was reminded of her uncle, Roosevelt I, who used to make herself and other young Roosevelts jump off sandcliffs at Oyster Bay, to teach them how far you slide going downhill and how hard it is to climb back up. Precisely, chimed in her husband; his latest lending program had been devised to create a gentle gradient instead of a cruel precipice...
...Science, he concluded that the reason for the gullibility of U. S. university graduates is that U. S. universities teach science atrociously. He proceeded to flay his fellow science teachers for trying to cram their dogmatic opinions down students' throats, giving them no notion of what Science has to do with the price of eggs. Most horrible example: A certain chemistry professor who admitted that he often sneaked into his laboratory after hours to rearrange his students' apparatus so that their experiments would be sure to come out right...
Although the Jesuits, all men, teach thousands of women, no woman had ever before been named to such a high administrative post in a Jesuit college. But to Fordham's president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon, Miss King's promotion was "logical," since Fordham has more than 3,000 women students, and in the social service school they outnumber men two to one. Founded in 1916, the School of Social Service is now a fulltime, professional graduate school to which only holders of bachelors' degrees are admitted for the two-year course. Its campus is the eighth...