Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime associate editor of the War-time pro-German magazine The Fatherland and now editor of The Progressive, testified as had many another, that the British were fouling the minds of U. S. school children. He did not mention Superintendent McAndrew at all. After him went a Chicago school teacher, Rosalie Didier, to exclaim: "To read that Washington was a rebel was to me a desecration and to learn that the Boston Tea Party was vandalism made me feel that Schlesinger* should be filling a cell in a Federal prison." This last week's continuation of legal irrelevancies...
...trouble began with "The Star Spangled Banner." A lubberly, stoop-shouldered, churlish boy, one Ralph Esposito, refused to sing it. So his teacher sent him to Principal William M. Rainey's office.* The boy went, but would give no satisfactory explanation of his stubbornness. "Well," said Principal Rainey, "do you want to put on the boxing gloves with one of the other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts...
...little--because for the last two years they let him take almost anything he wants (provided a certain amount of it is in his major) and make no systematic attempt at ordering and correlating his courses, at giving unity to his program of studies. For two years the teacher makes the class recite in unison their A B C's and two years he turns them loose in the library to read anything they may fancy. Is it any wonder that the undergraduate, after two years in which he has been allowed no choice at all, is unable to make...
...advantage of the large lecture is that it enable the leaders in a certain field to reach a maximum number of students. But the inspirational influence of the teacher is bound to be diluted when adapted to the needs of the group. This diffuse quality attracts, as President Pease says, "those members of the student body who seek the maximum of credit with the minimum of effort." He suggests the division of certain kinds of courses into smaller classes as the most immediate remedy. Beyond that lies the tutorial system, which as in use at Harvard is instilling what President...
...more than $175,000 to assure its existence for the next three years Henri Verbrugghen will conduct the 16 concerts at home, the same series in St. Paul, will lead on Nov. 4 the identical program given 25 years before with Soprano Dusolina Giannini, the soloist, instead of her teacher, Marcella Sembrich...