Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Justice. Attorney General Stone, the teacher of law, he, the greatest part of whose career has been within the precincts of learning, was nominated for transfer to the Supreme Bench. It was suggested that in the Cabinet ha had proved too nonpolitical, that the handshakings and granting of little favors which is the politician's life and success, did not come easily...
...Scarce breathed the audience now, so grave, so holy, was the sight. A young woman in a rose-colored frock suddenly detached herself from the gloom, stood bowing in the soft-lustre before her instrument. She was Marie Leschetizky, final wife of the late Theodor Leschetizky, famed Viennese music teacher,* about to make her Manhattan debut. After due trouble with her chair, she addressed herself to a highly uneventful performance of a Bach Sicilienne. Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy followed; in all of whose works Mme. Leschetizky strove courageously to support the improbable theory that the Kingdom of Heaven...
Well, since this point is settled, it naturally follows that the American boy is being stron from his masculine moorings" by the frail creatures whose name is "woman." It might be suggested to Mr. Wells, that the influence of the primary school teacher upon the character of the boy is not so great as he may think; that every boy has his own father as his model of masculine virtue. Mr. Wells has considered that, but he gets no comfort from the thought. The father isn't a fit model. He too is a victim of the system, says...
Bryan. "I am not simply a scientist and a teacher but also a Christian. ... It is precisely because I am a follower of Christ that I most resent the attitude of Mr. Bryan. . . . Evolution is the universal belief of science today. . . . Many omissions of relevant evidence and some apparent misrepresentations of the evolution theory and its supporters may well be due to Mr. Bryan's unfamiliarity with the facts in the case. A lawyer who does not know law or a doctor who has not studied medicine is a quack and subject to legal control; even a high school...
...Many a promising teacher is given a permanent appointment on what seem adequate grounds of promise, and yet ceases by the time he reaches middle life to row his weight in the boat. Is the institution to waste its funds and are the students to be defrauded of their due for 20 years to ensure a livelihood to a man or woman who has proved incompetent or becomes intellectually stagnant...