Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Harvard College was originally founded to provide an educated ministry for the New England colonies. And Harvard College can render no larger service to day than by providing men who shall teach the fundamental truths of religion in our modern world...
Coach Wachter is trying to teach the rules thoroughly and do away, if possible, with so much of the tendency to foul. Tuesday night at the Freshman Gymnasium he spoke for an hour on the rules, paying particular attention to the many changes that have taken place this year and concluded by giving several illustrations and demonstrations...
...have fixed them upon something which is very subordinate, namely, how to prepare you to make a living." Unfortunately, Mr. Butler supplies ample contradiction for himself. He regrets the fact that the elementary schools have deviated from their proper business of training young children in good physiological habits, of teaching them the elementary forces of nature, of giving them the ability to read understandingly, to write legibly, to use numbers correctly. These have been pushed into the background "by all sorts of enterprises that have their origin in emotionalism, in ignorance, or in mere vanity." A great deal of what...
...Butler exaggerates the peril. It is fairly common experience that the college student or the schoolboy, if given free rein, will not go in too heavily for the subjects that teach one how to make a living. Their inclination is pretty strong for the snap courses that teach us how to live. New York Evening Post...
...himself as well pleased with the showing made by all the teams. Last evening at the Freshman Gymnasium a blackboard talk was given to the entire squad. At this meeting formations and plays were explained in detail and the new rules carefully gone over. Coach Wachter is endeavoring to teach the men to avoid, as much as possible, fouling...