Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...risking something, the undergraduate has only the intrinsic merit of drinking itself as a lure. And judging from observation, this lure is not overwhelmingly seductive among college men. The greatest factor seems to be the innate dislike for authority; the survival from school days of the contempt for the "teacher's pet" and the "goody-goody", who represent in the popular mind the upright and the law-abiding...
...first this young woman (a music teacher) is gauche, inept, stumbling amid polished floors and brilliant conversation. Astonishingly she sprouts wings. One talk with an aesthetic artist, and she decides to liberate her soul with a thump on the keyboard. She tosses off her inhibitions and a Chopin scherzo simultaneously. Result?she walks off with the fascinated Willie from under the very nose of a voluptuous vampire. It is a tribute to the power of ten-finger exercises...
...scientific rationalism was the leading force of Germany, and strictly rationalistic philosophy held undisputed sway in every German university. Today this school of thinking fares badly indeed in Heidelberg. A whole army of new men of widely varying intellectual ability has taken up arms against it. A very interesting teacher, quite new in university circles, and a brilliant speaker, now wields enormous influence. He is Professor Gundolf, the author of the best, indeed the first real book on Goethe; a fanatical supporter of personality as the determining factor in life and history. He opposes vigorously the abstract rationalism...
Three universities in particular offer positions. At St. Paul's University, Tokyo, a man is desired who has an A.B. degree, and who is qualified to teach Latin and modern languages. A teacher of English, of engineering, of philosophy and psychology, and a teacher in physics are sought by St. John's University in Shanghai. The third institution, Boone University, Wuchang, desires a teacher of English, a teacher of Science, and a teacher of business subjects...
Representatives of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Federation of Women's Foreign Mission Societies, Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations, National Council of Women, National League of Women Voters, Daughters of the American Revolution, Women's Christian Temperance Association, and the Young Women's Christian Association, arose, one after the other, and pledged their 10,000,000 membership to the movement...