Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zealand's Labor government decided to do something for him. This week he will board ship for three years at London's Trinity College of Music, a $10,000 musical education at Government expense. New Zealanders, who suspect they have found a native Paul Robeson, do not intend to let his sweetness be wasted on the native bush...
...best as well as the worst teachers are fantastically overworked. Only about half those enrolled in state normal schools and teachers' colleges intend to teach;* there are graduates enough from these training schools to fill only about a third of the positions open. The situation is such that few but the timid, the incompetent, and those rare souls who have a true vocation for teaching can or will stick with such a job. The pay is disgracefully low (the average teacher gets from $800 to $3,100 a year). Socially, teachers are held in a special kind of contempt...
...intend to give the impression that the History Department was not tutoring Sophomores. Actually we are tutoring all Sophomores of Group III standing. The only respect in which we are not tutoring to the full extent permitted by Faculty vote is in the case of Group IV Sophomores whom Departments may, under Faculty policy, tutor half the year. David E. Owen, Chairman, Department of History...
...Several departments in the first category offer, or intend to offer, tutorial to the fullest limit of the faculty ruling, but believe an extension that would include other students would be worth neither the students' time nor the University's money...
...ancient family, was able to shape his life about as he wished it. He did not wish to become a literary lion. "Tell Thackeray," he wrote firmly to a friend at the age of 21, "that he is never to invite me to his house, as I never intend to go. ... I am going to become a great bear; and have got all sorts of Utopian ideas. . . . These may all be very absurd, but I try the experiment on myself, so I can do no great hurt...