Word: old
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there exist two kinds of faculty members: the teaching professors and the research professors. Dear to the heart of the undergraduate is many a teaching professor. Him they afterward remember for what little light and learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good fellowship. When they grow old they swap anecdotes about him; if they become Trustees they like to see him prosper in his fashion. But the research professors, who sometimes regard the civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues and often of the president...
...year, a full professorship in the English department was left vacant. After 14 years of well-received teaching at Yale, popular Mr. French hoped that the fruits of his long labors might be rewarded. But another consideration arose last month. He was offered the Provostship of Avon Old Farms, a pretentious two-year-old experimental school at Avon, Conn...
With tumult and with shouting Pedagog French's friends and disciples, old and new, came to his aid. The Corporation solemnly convened, voted to create an extra professorship for him, submitted the proposal to the English board. Again and astoundingly came the negative vote, four to three. President James Rowland Angell accepted Pedagog French's resignation, with customary expressions of regret. The triumph of Research over Teaching seemed complete...
Simultaneously Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, Yale lecturer, promoter of Avon Old Farms, announced that, sorry as he was to see Pedagog French leave Yale, he was glad to get him at Avon. Said Dr. Canby: "In accepting the Provostship of Avon, he is not leaving the educational area in which good teaching and the sympathetic handling of youth are so important, but shifting his ground...
...organized Continental Gas & Electric, one of the earliest of public utility holding companies. The Republic deal was handled through Cliffs Corp., a recently organized investment company which combines the resources of Otis & Co. with Pickands, Mather & Co. and M. A. Hanna Co., thus bringing Cleveland's famed old iron and steel Mather and Hanna families into the newest steel development...