Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attend every meeting in a certain course, he cannot really know his lecturer. The student in taking notes or listening to a discussion sees only the business side. He is acquainted with the teaching staff only in a scholastic sense. To make the relation between student and teacher more intimate, the Faculty invites all students to attend these teas. They are institutions which extend marked privileges to men in the University...
...course of lectures of special interest to the general public and to teachers of history in schools will be given by members of the Department of History and by the visiting French officers. These lectures will be entitled "Historical Aspects of the Present War," and for the convenience of the largest possible public they will be given late in the afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. Professor Haskins will have the opening lecture on "The War and the Teacher"; Professor A. C. Coolidge will give ten lectures on "The Historical Antecedents of the War"; Colonel Azan and other officers will...
...Francis Greenwood Peabody professorship in the Divinity School has been to date increased to more than $25,000. Until the full amount necessary for the establishment of the professorship has been raised, however, the committee in charge believes that the income from the fund should be used for a teacher of less rank than a full professor. The Reverend Frothingham '86 hopes "that the fund may receive accretions in the days to come so that eventually it will be of sufficient dimensions to support a full professorship...
Since his retirement as an active teacher in the University in 1909, undergraduates have known little of the part played by Professor John William White, A.M., Ph.D. '77, in the College affairs. Coming as a young man from Ohio Wesleyan, he was made tutor in Greek in 1874, took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1877, was made Assistant Professor the same year, and Professor in 1884. He early showed a very marked ability as a teacher, an administrator, and a leader of men. He was for many years chairman of his department and division; as chairman...
...teaching force is seriously overworked. In 1899-1900 there were 36 students to a teacher. In 1915-16 there were 61. Owing to increase of students, even with the higher standards set, there are today 72 students to each teacher, while in the College the ratio is 18 to one and in the Medical School five to one. These figures show the need of a large endowment to provide more teachers. That the officers of the school should carry burdens sufficient, as in Dean Thayer's case, to cause a complete breakdown, should not be expected, by the profession...