Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very real sense Aprendamos Inglés ("Let's Learn English") is a request program-for we might never have thought of the idea if so many important U.S. and Latin American officials had not written us about our Spanish-teaching program here in the U.S. (Among them were the Ambassadors of Panama, Venezuela and Uruguay, the Ministers of El Salvador, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, the Consul General of Cuba, several top-ranking radio members of the Rockefeller Committee, and scores of other dignitaries and just plain interested citizens.) And many of them asked if we could...
...Detroit's Cranbrook Institute of Science opened an exhibit designed to teach racial tolerance to the city which has had the worst U.S. race riots in years. Many points made by the Institute's displays were drawn from The Races of Mankind...
...University of California, he resigned when invited to lecture on higher mathematics and logic at Manhattan's City College in 1940. Presently he saw his invitation nullified: Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning charged that Russell, unorthodox on sex questions (Marriage and Morals), was morally unfit to teach; Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia pulled Russell's professorial chair out from under him by unbudgeting his salary...
...Berrien, who is now Director for the Humanities of the Rockefeller Foundation, previously taught Spanish and Portugese at Northwestern, California, Michigan, and Mills, and is to teach these languages at Harvard. He has resided for long periods in South America and Mexico...
Cornell has decided to drop the intensive civilian course, at least for a time. But the University still wanted to meet the army's request to teach Russian subjects to uniformed students. And that was a tough problem. According to President Edmund Ezra Day, it could not find an informed lecturer who was neither rabidly pro-nor anti-Soviet. The university is bewildered by the samovar tempest its choices created...