Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excerpts: "In the year of my advent upon these scenes, the annus mirabilis 1880, they took but $78,094,687 for flogging the elements into 15,065,767 pupils, which worked out to but little more than $5 per capita per annum. ... In 1914. the year of fate, there were 26,002,153 boys and girls in the schools, and making them fit for democracy cost $555,077,146 . . . four times as much as in 1880. . . . But then the pedagogues began to fall upon the taxpayer in real earnest, and presently they had him down and were turning his pockets...
Ezekiel Cheever was the Boston Public Latin School's first master. A marble slab records that "Cotton Mather, a grateful pupil, ascribed to him all New England's learning." The third master was John Lovell, a Tory who on April 19, 1775 said owlishly to his pupils: "War's begun and school is done." Five signers of the Declaration of Independence went to Boston Latin School: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, William Hooper. Four Continental Congressmen were graduates, as were six Massachusetts governors, five U. S. Senators, four Harvard presidents including the late...
...open his campaign last October, President Hoover stopped briefly at West Liberty, Iowa. There he invited aboard his private car Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran, the first schoolma'am of whom he has any recollection. As the train rolled on, Mrs. Carran settled down to tell her onetime pupil her troubles. These mostly concerned her son Charlie. Charlie was "going on 45." Charlie had no job. Charlie had six children to feed. Charlie was getting desperate and even threatening to vote the Democratic ticket. His mother just did not know what on earth could be done about Charlie. Last week...
Before sailing Professor Piccard told the Press some new things about himself. He had been, the New York Times correspondent wirelessed, "Dr. Einstein's leading pupil when the latter taught at the University of Zurich, and at that time Dr. Einstein asked his collaboration in carrying on experiments in making instruments for measurements with precision of radio-activity and electromagnetism in liquids. The instruments which Professor Einstein used were invented by Professor Piccard, and Dr. Einstein has cabled seeking an appointment with him on the Pacific Coast. Professor Piccard [born 1884 at Basle, Switzerland] was also...
...Paris grumbling old Auguste Rodin took her as a pupil. To perfect her knowledge of anatomy she practiced dissection at the Royal College of Surgeons for three years. Recognition followed. Museums in France, Britain and the U. S. bought her work; she has been decorated by both France and Jugoslavia. To the general public perhaps best known works are the stone group at the entrance of London's Bush House and the recumbent crusader that is Harvard's War Memorial...