Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There's never an Eli can teach us to play...
...Norton taught at Harvard from 1875 to 1898. He began under conditions which for a man less powerful would have been strongly adverse. He was already past middle life, in slender health, without experience in teaching, or indeed in routine work of any kind. His life had been that of a gentleman of leisure, spent in reading, travel, correspondence, and only occasionally writing for publication. With little technical training he undertook to teach a subject novel to the University, in which as yet there was no department; a subject, too, regarded with suspicion by influential sections of the community. Under...
...most important features of the School will be the practical work required of each student in the summer. The object of this work will be two-fold, first, to teach the students from practical experience and observation the elements of business that cannot be taught in the class-room, and secondly, to bring them in contact with the men with whom their life work is to be done. Incidentally the summer work will be useful in accustoming every student to the rough work and routine through which, if at all, his university training may enable him to rise. The School...
...Summer School for 1908 will pen on Wednesday, July, and close on Wednesday, August 12. The courses given in the School are intended primarily for teachers or for those preparing to teach, but are open without formal examination to all qualified persons. Some of the course may be counted towards the degree at A. B. or S. B. by students in the College or the Scientific School. There are in all 92 courses...
...conceivable, that, if all our instructors delivered their lectures with the earnestness and eloquence of our borrowed professors, and took the personal interest in those under them that an athletic coach does, the academic interests would not be so far behind in the race. Experience seems to teach that if the undergraduate interest is turned away from athletic pursuits, it will turn toward social pursuits, at least emasculating, if not vicious. If, with the abolishment of winter sports, the interest does turn toward social things, the Faculty will find itself no better off. We may then look for rules limiting...