Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Browining, U. S. A. commanding officer of the Harvard R. O. T. C., to whose unit Major Daly has been ordered to report, when questioned in regard to the latter's plans, emphasized the fact that any opportunity of Major Daly to act in the capacity of football teacher would be limited to his spare time. "Major Daly" he said, "is being welcomed to the University as a crack field artilleryman, a phase of army work which we are stressing, as a Harvard graduate and as a West Point man. Any coaching work will be purely incidental...
After nearly half a century as Harvard's most loved teacher and a quarter of a century as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Le Baron Russell Briggs '75 has given notice that he will resign at the end of the present academic year. This announcement was made yesterday after the Corporation and the Board of Overseers had taken action to appoint his successors...
...resignation of a loved and honored teacher must always be accompanied by a deep sense of loss on the part of the University that he has served. No matter for how many years he has been in office, nor how exacting the work which he has carried on his shoulders, the announcement of his impending retirement invariably has an element of surprise and shock. It seems impossible that one who has been so close to the life of the institution can ever...
...tutor whom he meets at intervals more and more frequent each year of his college life. His tutor is designated as soon as he selects his field of concentration near the end of his Freshman year, and through the three succeeding years of college he has a teacher to care for his individual needs, thus carrying out the conception that the unit, the only true unit, in education is not the course, but the student himself. It may be observed that tutors, or their equivalent, are now provided in every department that has a general examination--that...
Episode. Gilbert Emery is a tall individual whose clothes and accent flap about in a manner broadly British. His real name is Emery Pottle and he attended Amherst College. Later, he was a teacher, wrote short stories. There followed War pages?pages bright for him?and finally peace. His stories did not sell. One day Jane Cowl wondered if he ever had been an actor. No, but he'd try it. And he did?with indifferent success. Presently, Mr. Emery turned his hand to playwriting. Writer of The Hero and Tarnish, actor in other plays, he has finally consolidated. With...