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...every man who undertakes the tutelage of younger minds is given the opportunity, perhaps the best opportunity within human society, to win for his name, for his abilities, even for his eccentricities, a profoundly sentimental reverence. This reverence of pupil for teacher all ages of civilized men share in common nostalgic felicity. It persists in a time and among men who conscientiously harbor cynicism. It is, in short, an inescapable adjunct to discipleship. It is not, however, an inescapable adjunct to professorship. Every teacher, it is true, receives some small portion--his due as an officer, as an adult...
...Brickley Pupil...
...their own course. For the essentials of their propaganda are capable of no other interpretation, and that propaganda they have brewed with uncommon energy and ability, leaving no page in the book of mob inflammation unturned, no trick in the militarist deck unplayed. M. Daladier has been an apt pupil, and the guerre de revanche, seemingly moribund, has blossomed beneath his hand. The great obstacle is economic expediency, but Lloyd's are willing to wager at three to one odds that the French and German foreign offices can achieve the decisive calorie which will boil this issue away, and bring...
...miracle-worker who raised Helen Keller from the worse-than-dead. Her name is Anne Sullivan Macy; in this book Authoress Braddy tells her little-known story. Mrs. Macy has lived continuously with Helen Keller for 45 years except for two occasions. Fourteen years older than her lifelong pupil, she was well fitted to be a sympathetic teacher of the blind. She was practically blinded herself in childhood by trachoma. A series of operations restored her sight, but her eyes have always troubled her. Born Annie Sullivan, the daughter of poor Irish immigrants in Massachusetts, she and her rip-roaring...
...informal meet centering at the Swannanoa Country Club near Waynesboro, atop the Blue Ridge in western Virginia. Last week this meet got under way. Besides Pilot du Pont in his new Bowlus sailplane Albatross there were August C. ("Gus") Haller of Pittsburgh, builder of Hatter-Hawks; Haller's pupil, Emerson Mehlhose of Wyandotte, Mich., Warren Eaton, Norwich, N. Y. After feeling their way up & down the Ridge for a couple of days, the pilots went out for records. Mehlhose, in a Hawk, took off from Rockfish Gap in a wind that nearly tore his wings off, soared...