Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion of his farewell appearance, the CRIMSON in behalf of the undergraduates of Harvard University, wishes to offer its tributes to the great teacher and the greater man who has been the first to occupy the chair of Poetry established last year...
Then too, he is an unparalleled idealist in an age when idealism is regarded as useless if not made. In a college where this quality is considered fit only for Y-men and aesthetes, it has been immensely salutary to find it also the life of a great teacher...
...Eliot's conception of the college, writes in the Nation. "A few letters, written in his precise longhand," with "some of the Olympian sweep of his spirit," form the only personal contact between the two men. Robert Littell in the New Republic recalls his early days as a teacher under Dr. Eliot, speaks of the warmth that lay under his austere interior, and of the calm and passionless force with which he gave rebuke or praise. Edwin Mead writes in the Springfield Republican of the courageous Eliot, the man who did not fear to speak his mind, even...
...under a system of prescription, work of high excellence could not be expected from the general body of undergraduates. "I saw clearly," he says, "that a prescribed system, particularly when it was conducted with all possible efficiency had a very deadening effect on scholarship and intellectual ambition in the teacher...
...university president, he probably achieved more substantial results for the institution he served than any man in a similar position in the history of this country; but his influence has been far wider in its scope than the university, even when the influence of Harvard graduates and Harvard teachers is taken into account. President Eliot has been in a true sense an educational leader for the nation. The educational policies he introduced into Harvard College have been taken up not only by other collegiate institutions, but also by the schools and he has had a profound influence through his direct...