Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Case 2.?The patient was a teacher, aged 50. She complained of stiffness in the limbs, pain in the back, great exhausition, weakened memory and great mental depression. On July 22, 1922, one X-ray treatment was given. A few days later she felt very well. The backache had disappeared, and she said that she could walk without any great discomfort? for the first time in several months. She had a distinct feeling of physical strength and energy...
...light in the theatre had become dim and throughout the hall intense faces leaned forward to catch President Eliot's every word and expression as he spoke of his experiences as a student, a teacher and an officer of Harvard. As he ended with his appeal to the graduates and undergraduates of Harvard to serve their country "with devotion and sacrifice in peace as well as war," the applause broke out again and lasted until long after he had left the platform with his escort to proceed to the Yard and receive the greetings of the student body...
...Consider now the sources of my career as a teacher. The sources were in the times. In that wonderful period of human history in which my whole career was laid. Think of it. When I was going on as a teacher in Harvard, the great prophets and exponents of experimental science were taking possession of that great field. Think how the philosophers of the world were preaching attention to the individual preaching the immense variety of human nature. Think how James Russell Lowell was telling us that democracy must not only raise the average mass, but it must give...
...that came when I was a teacher in Harvard, and out of the times, the extraordinary period, have come the ideals and the lessons which I have pursued all through my activity. Then as the years went by and the period of combat and persistent effort against opposition passed and the new structure of Harvard University began to take effect, think how it gave me the opportunity to see where modern education was going, and where it ought to go. Now and then I could help their labors, especially in the medical faculty, but it was the strength...
...Personally, I am strong for religion," continued Professor Holmes, "and I resent attacks against sectarian schools. Teachers should have some responsibility over religion. When a man takes up the profession of teaching he devotes his life to the general betterment of his pupils. He becomes fundamentally interested in advancing man to his furthest ends. Religion is undoubtedly so closely connected with this purpose, that a teacher, in order to achieve his end, really must teach...