Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit a school teacher put by her pointer and her students' papers. Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh dressed herself warmly and was swept southward by the propeller windstorm of a sturdy trimotored Ford monoplane. One night she spent in St. Louis. The next day as her famed offspring in Mexico City was piloting on his first flight President Plutarco Elias Calles, the monoplane sprang to Tulsa, Okla. The third sunset found her in Brownsville, Texas. Next day up from the crowded field at Mexico City rose Col. Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis. Swallowed in the clouds he missed...
They objected to a teacher who would use the word that Principal Tate had used in front of their children. When Mr. Colson asked one of the parents what "evolution" meant, the parent said: "I do not know and I do not want to know but I do know that I do not want my children to know anything about it, either." The result of this to-do was a request that Mr. Tate, anti-evolutionist and Deacon of the Baptist Church, was asked to resign as Principal of the Farragut Grammar School...
...annual report to the trustees of Columbia University, besides a startling appeal to the people to discharge their debt for the services of the colleges by a clause in their wills, President Nicholas Murray Butler attacked the narrow specialization of graduate students. "The insistence that a teacher . . . must be able to produce a degree of Master of Arts or even Doctor of Philosophy," he said, "can only result in multiplying many times over the number of graduate students at American universities, while bringing them to look upon their university residence and work as a penance to be endured. Such artificial...
...Butler is right in his contention that the best teacher is the scholar of widest knowledge and appreciation, but it is disconcerting to have the president of a university which stands foremost in graduate enrollment so deprecate specialization. For he based his plea for endowments upon the great service to complex civilization that university trained men are doing. And certainly it is not the dilettante, however interesting he may be, who is making possible the refinement of living, but the specialist impervious to every other interest who burrows until he unearth his treasure. His importance to society, his conception...
Through the ages teachers have viewed with alarm, nodded with sadness, reported with regret. At New Haven, Conn., last week precedent and an electric light globe were shattered when an elert candidate for the Yale Daily News saw bad luck attend the careless exuberance of his teacher, used the printed word to tattle...