Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other visiting lecturers who will give courses at the University this summer include Professor William L. Westermann, Cornell historian; Professor Edwin Greenlaw '03, of the University of North Carolina, one of the leading teachers of English in the South; Professor Frederic Palmer Jr. '00, of Haverford, the physicist; Professor Frank Aydelotte '03, of M. I. T.; Profesor Leo. R. Lewis '88, of Tufts; Professor Edward G. Spaulding, the Princeton teacher of Philosophy; and A. J. B. Wace, the noted archaeologist, who is director of the British School at Athens...
...first made his acquaintance. The undergraduates of today who have never had the opportunity of meeting this really great Harvard man, have been denied a rare privilege. For in kindliness, in courtesy, and in genuine sympathy he was all that a young man could hope to find in a teacher and a friend. His door in Grays was always open, and inside that sunny room was an atmosphere of friendliness and encouragement for all who came, Freshman Senior or Graduate...
...Harvard Club of Boston, now takes a place in the Faculty Room next to that of William James. On the same wall of the room hang the portraits of James Russell Lowell, former professor of Belles Lettres and former Overseer of the University; Professor Sophocles, the celebrated and eccentric teacher of Greek; William Watson Goodwin, the scholar; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, who was for many years a professor at the University; Dean Shaler; Benjamin Pierce, the great mathematician; and others whose memory the University honors...
...almost magical divination; but still, as it seemed to academic Cambridge, it worked uncanonically, irresponsibly. His knowledge was wide and luminous; on most of the subjects of which he wrote it was exhaustive; yet always it was the knowledge not of the researcher nor even of the steady-going teacher of youth, but of the adventuring man of letters. Long before the Shavian era in England, he was a professorial Bernard Shaw...
...Shakespeare was by turns brilliantly original and deficient in imaginative feeling. In his later years his methods sobered somewhat, his interests widened and his sympathies broadened. As to the permanent value of his output it is too early to heard a guess. But of his value as a teacher there can be no question. In a group of men suavely Victorian, he stood for the unconventionality, the daring and the happy irresponsibility of the twentieth century. New York Times...