Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plebs to his "spiritual home"? Very few. Yet this affliction is shared by graduates and undergraduates the world over. Summer vacations throw open universities to all manner of people seeking all manner of things in all manner of ways. Chief among them, and least offending, is the teacher bent upon self-improvement...
Ellery Sedgwick was born in New York City, of a family distinguished for its origins as well as its accomplishments. He was educated at Harvard. He was for a time a teacher at Groton School, then turned to editorial and publishing pursuits, and served on various magazines and publishing houses. The Atlantic is interesting because of its Editor's keen interest in present-day affairs, and his unwillingness to be fitted into any groove of opinion. After all, that is the first characteristic, I believe, of a successful editor...
...lacking. There is Caruso, whom the diva kissed; Richard Strauss and Puccini, her intimate friends; Franz Schreker, whose music she loathes ("His stories are morbid and unhealthy; his scores, vocally, are the most terrible ever written") ; Geraldine Farrar, whom she generously admires; Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Marcella Sembrich her teacher, "strict, and, when I sometimes gave her occasion, stern." The choicest bits are the naive little confessions. "The jewels I wear on the stage are all imitation." ... "I might as well state categorically that my hair, all of it, is absolutely my own and grows naturally instead of being appliqu...
After 40 years in professional chairs, an eminent teacher is retiring to rest and t@ devote himself to the labor which he loves best. He is Dr. Frederick J. Turner of Harvard. With the close of the term he leaves for Madison, Wis., where, in his retirement, he will write on American, especially on western American history...
...title as a great teacher rests not only on his personal ability but on the achievements of his pupils. No less than four of them are now his colleagues in professional pursuits, each with a claim of his own to distinction. They...