Word: pupil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sunday-School Teacher. Dean Weigle's educational influence has reached not only academic highbrows, but littlebrows as well. Generations of Sunday-school children have been taught by the methods advocated in his book, The Pupil and the Teacher, which has sold close to 1,000,000 copies. Since 1928, Dean Weigle has been chairman of the executive committee of the World's Sunday School Association (now the World Council of Christian Education). In this capacity he is still a vociferous opponent of the ban on teaching religion in the public schools. Says he: "When the public schools ignore...
...bring Leadom to school, engineers of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. had rigged up an experimental machine called the "Teletalk." A special telephone circuit connects two sets of microphones and loudspeakers-one set in Teacher Fleda Cox's classroom, the other in Pupil Beatty's bedroom. Says Principal Dorothy Swope, who sold Southwestern Bell the idea: "It's surprising. When Leadom was actually in class, he was reticent. Now perhaps because he's called on more than anyone else, and because the other children have made him the most important member of their group...
Beginner. In The Bronx, Pickpocket Plunk Williams confessed to police that he was only an apprentice, that two experienced friends had tried to teach him but "I'm a poor pupil. I fumble every time...
...William Rothenstein, president of London's Royal College of Arts, felt justified in feeling peeved that day in 1923: his star pupil was deserting him. Young Uday Shankar, who had come all the way from India to study painting, was about to join Anna Pavlova's ballet troupe. "Please, persuade Mme. Pavlova not to do this," Sir William begged a friend. Replied Pavlova: "Please tell Sir William that Shankar is a born dancer. He must dance. Oh, he must dance...
Maldarelli's star ex-pupil is 30-year-old Mitzi Solomon, but strangely enough, none of the nudes in Maldarelli's show (see above) was named Mitzi. She staged an exhibition of her own last week, just around the corner from the master's, and Maldarelli did not bother to see it. Her work had grown a world apart from...