Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came to Harvard in 1891 as an instructor in botany, working for his degree in the Lawrence Scientific School while teaching. He became an assistant professor in 1905, and in 1915 gained the post of Fisher Professor of Natural History...
...flew for a while at Pensacola as an instructor, then got a two-year tour of duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics at Washington. There he first demonstrated his ability for administration and staff work, and began his long war against the battleship admirals (as late as World War II he was still cursing them in his quiet, emphatic voice). As a scout plane pilot attached to the Colorado and later the Pennsylvania, he learned what the old-time battlewagon skippers were generally like. Most of them hated the airplanes they were forced to carry, because 1) they splashed...
...Provo, Utah, which gives new teachers time off to visit other schools and classrooms, assigns each newcomer an experienced instructor as helper and guide through the first year...
Four of these experts were consulted: John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, member of the Committee on Far Eastern Studies, and director of Regional Study Program on China; Bruce C. Hopper '24, associate professor of government, instructor in the Regional Program on the Soviet Union, and teacher of a course on "Russia and Asia in World Politics;" Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, member of the Committee on Far Eastern Studies, and instructor in the Regional Program on China; and Benjamin Schwartz, instructor in History and member of the Russian Research Center, Far Eastern Division...
After a short wait at the Denver airport, a beaming Dwight D. Eisenhower met his only son, Captain John S. D. Eisenhower, West Point English instructor, drove him to the home of the general's parents-in-law for a bang-up family reunion...