Word: pedagog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election. Reason alleged: one of the candidates was Benjamin Franklin ("Bacon") Bunn, keeper of the co-operative store on the University campus. Another candidate, a onetime faculty member named Van Nest, believed that the students would pour out to vote for popular Storekeeper Bunn sooner than for an obscure pedagog...
...Arnold Whitridge-Holt ($3.00). In Tom Brown's School-Days Thomas Arnold is immortalized as the formidable headmaster, rex atque sacerdos. In his son Matthew's ode on Rugby Chapel he stands with "radiant vigor." In Dean Stanley's enthusiastic biography he is the religiously inspired pedagog. And in Strachey's flashing satiric sketch he is the stodgy pedant, a typical Victorian. Strachey thereby incurs the wrath of Arnold's great-grandson and present biographer, who adds nothing further to the portrait, but demonstrates, in a thoughtful, conscientious manner, Arnold's changes in school...
...bethought himself of Osborne's talk and called him out to meet him, at the Knights of Columbus games in Manhattan next month, in an all-round athletic duel. Sportdom awaited Teacher Osborne's reply, hoping much that the joust might be but realizing the obligations that are a pedagog...
Such scenes do not yet occur, by design, in U. S. schools. But it is the proceeding that a Paris despatch described last week as Pedagog Phillippe Teste's "psychic bath," adopted by several French schools to develop children's self-control. Teachers testified that the "bath" had proved "extremely beneficial" in tranquilizing unruly, restive children. Doubtless it had stimulated many a logy, lethargic one as well...
...Laws, 5 times Doctor of Jurisprudence in European universities, Oxford Doctor of Letters, Prague Doctor of Philosophy, Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor, recipient of five decorations from crowned heads, member of every U. S. learned society of any note and of several European hierarchies, publicist, moralizer, politician, pedagog, Bohemian, philosopher, will look upon this 64th year of his life as not the least satisfactory. In Paris, last week, with much ceremony, he was inducted to the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, to which he had been elected in 1923. Only two U. S. celebrities had entered...