Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be a long step toward preventing the likelihood of panic. Moreover, when a man knows how to swim he is much less likely to be scared out of his wits when a ship is in danger." Declaring that his own Lloyd Sabaudo Line had at once begun to teach their crews English and aquatics, Dr. Serrati intimated that all the major Italian carriers would at once follow suit. "Our crews in squads of 25," he said, "will be taught English daily in their mess rooms while our vessels are at sea, and in the ballrooms while the vessels...
...Guide to Government 1, included in today's issue of the CRIMSON is not chiefly a change in the periods between quizzes or the order in which the governments of the various countries are considered. Rather it is the type of reading assigned and whether it is intended to teach the student just how governments are conducted or to arouse a serious and individual interest in the more essentially cultural subject of historical political theory in its broader aspects...
...sometimes thought are the qualities requisite for success in business?" I told him: "Judgment, courage, and that combining and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness." Perhaps I might better have used the good old Yankee word "gumption." He smiled at me indulgently. "Well," he said, "you can't teach those." The response was obvious: "Does West Point training aid in developing successful Army officers, and what apart from technical knowledge and honesty, makes for success in that profession?" He meditated a moment, and then replied: "I see your point." And he agreed with me that while a good military...
...TIME of Aug. 19, (P-47) the adage is quoted in its popular form, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, Teach." In view of your characterization of this as "bitter and unfair" you may be interested to know of Bernard Shaw's recantation or at least modification of that caustic remark in his Preface to The W. E. A. Education Yearbook (1918) pp. 20, 21 : "This, by the way, is the best answer to my famous gibe, 'He who can do, does: he who can think, teaches' is just as true as the other...
Taps. Nowadays a dancing instructor must be versed in all kinds of dancing. Gone is the cotillion master whose repertoire was complete with the schottische, polka and waltz. To be up-to-date the schools must teach the ballet, the toe-dance, the classical and acrobatic dance, the fox trot, one-step, two-step and waltz and the tap dance. Leading exponent of the latter is Billy Newsome, vaudevillian, onetime teacher for Ned Wayburn, Broadway showgirl trainer. The tap dance is in vogue. "Society," says Tapper Newsome, "is taking it up. I've tutored the Vanderbilts and the Astors...