Word: pedagogical
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...Brom frightens poor Ichabod with a pumpkin head and then reveals himself as a qualified pedagog (who is about to open his own school), is revealed as this radically modified classic concludes. Of more point in Bronxville, whose progressive educational system is famous, than on a national network is Brom's final song...
...Medal, a gold disc bearing a rose and a device suggesting the recipient's vocation, has gone to such Catholics as Alfred Emanuel Smith, Actress Margaret Anglin, Tenor John McCormack, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady, now Mrs. Macaulay. Last week, for its 1937 award, Notre Dame chose a Catholic pedagog: Dr. Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, 63, chairman of the department of Romance Languages at Harvard University...
...Donkin, a senior housemaster at Marbledown School, was far from wearied by his long years of welldoing, asked nothing more of fate than another decade or so in harness. An excellent pedagog, he had his little weaknesses, such as the daily crossword puzzle in the Times, and his old-bachelor devotion to the faded girl's photograph on his mantelpiece. (She had married a dashing artist, mothered four children, died.) His boys were devoted to Mr. Donkin, but Marbledown's new Headmaster was not, considered him an old-fashioned obstructionist nearly ready for the pruning knife. All unaware...
...that this baby recovered, for his name was Charles William Eliot." At this mention of the man under whose celebrated 40-year (1869-1909) administration Harvard blossomed into a great University and the whole tradition of higher education was changed, Harvardmen stamped, cheered, roared their tribute to a beloved pedagog...
...then President of Carnegie Corporation. Only those grown very old in the service of Yale and Education were aware that James Rowland Angell was the grandson of one college president, Brown's Alexis Caswell (1868-72), and the son of an even more celebrated journalist, diplomat and pedagog, Dr. James Burrill Angell, for 38 years President of the University of Michigan...