Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Efforts are being made to secure Ned Wayburn, one of the most famous Follies' coaches in New York. Mr. Wayburn has had a famous record as a successful chorus trainer and dancing-teacher. He also teaches a school in New York to train chorus girls...
...Richard Kane" has often walked into Teacher Edman's office between April and June seeking surcease from the throes of graduation, wondering what he is to do with his awakened, sensitive self in a cold, hard world. Says Teacher Edman: "The problem of giving Richard advice would have been simplified if he were a genius. He isn't. He is simply one of a constant group who come to college and become genuinely attached to what its defamers call the higher life. He is, if you will, living beyond his intellectual income. He is a dilettante, an amateur...
...colleges, 234 offered beginning Latin; 470 beginning Greek; 237 teacher-training courses in Latin; 214 required to the A.B. course...
Vida D. Scudder, Professor of English at Wellesley College these 14 years, briefly suggested the content of "The College Girl's Mind," by publishing some of the questions which students of hers, in a sociologico-literary course, asked before the course opened. As a teacher of some experience, Miss Scudder doubtless realized that many such questions are put with feigned seriousness and interest by students either in desperation or in an effort to impress their mark-giver. Still, Miss Scudder felt that there was something significant in the fact that "heads black, brown, yellow, straight and curly, bobbed...
Other changes besides these are necessary in any boarding school which is striving to inspire its students with a real regard for their studies. No matter how improved the teaching may become, if the hearts and minds of the boys are primarily on the athletic field, the teacher finds himself badly handicapped. In other words, a better proportioned perspective towards studies would be greatly aided by attaching less prominence to sports and especially to interscholastic matches...