Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attitude the college must spend a year, often two, in readjusting the student's relationship to and understanding of education. In many cases it accomplishes this purpose by requiring Freshman "orientation courses"; in others by general distribution and introductory requirements. In spite of these artificial aids, often burdensome to teacher and student alike, the mortality among Freshmen unable to make the jump is unnecessarily large...
Thus one Jasper K. Elmer responded when a teacher in a Reading, Pa., public school told her pupils to salute the flag. The teacher imagined that Pupil Elmer was insulting her. She did not speak his language. Pupil Elmer, recent immigrant from Jugoslavia spoke no English. That was six years ago. Last week Pupil Elmer, about to graduate from highschool, was chosen valedicatorian of a class of 161. He spoke English with no accent. His address: "Alone I made my way . . . night school for aliens . . . patience of those teachers . . . who have led me out of a state of obscurity into...
...last the "bizarre" Scopes trial was pronounced dead. Last week, after having delicately reproached it in a divided opinion which held the Tennessee anti-evolution law constitutional but reversed the conviction of Teacher John Thomas Scopes (TIME, Jan. 24), the Supreme Court of Tennessee denied Teacher Scopes's lawyer their request for a rehearing, and Attorney General L. D. Smith formally carried out the court's suggestion that the case be pigeonholed forever...
...knowledge of Germanic Philology is an essential prerequisite to an understanding of English Literature, combined with the conviction that Anglo-Saxon has a direct connection with English Literature. The other is a refusal to admit the fact that scholars fall naturally into two classes, the research worker and the teacher, the one who collects the material and the other who presents it. It is true that occasionally the two are found combined in one individual, but the Ph.D. system insists on everyone being both, and in attempting to produce a combination of the two it, frequently ends by spoiling...
...disastrous and deadening effects on some men as teachers no one who has suffered under the teacher-pedant will need much convincing. to expect a man to be a research worker as well as a teacher is about as logical as to demand that a goldsmith should also dig the gold he fashions. With the profoundest respect for Linguistics and for those possessing that aptitude, one is compelled to admit that it is a highly specialized study, and many a man possessing a wide knowledge of English Literature and a sincere appreciation of its beauty has lived and died...