Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Illinois. George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Wet and Democratic, v. Frank L. Smith, Republican Dry, v. Hugh S. Magill, Independent Republican Dry. Until Churchman-School-teacher Magill entered the campaign with his purity festoons (TiME, Oct. 11), Illinois was considered safe for "Insullated" Colonel Smith. If Mr. Magill can poll 200,000 votes, "Boss" Brennan will come out of the Wetlands of Cook County (Chicago), East St. Louis and Peoria with enough of a plurality to win the Senatorship...
With Buermeyer lying between life and death in Bellevue Hospital and Carson under $10,000 bail, the Columbia-University authorities, profoundly shocked, withheld decision as to their course of action. "Mr. Carson," said Professor Coss, his department chief, "was a thorough gentleman, a sincere student and an excellent teacher...
...Pingree and Mr. Marks are both sincere. They are not merely filling space for money and sensationalism. Yet both in the present case are talking to the moon. A man can go from college into teaching and by the sheer force of his personality make himself a successful teacher at a college or a university. It has been done and it is being done. Yet that man will never succeed in reaching the heights he might have attained with a truer knowledge of his subject. One must know a profession in these days of excessive competition to continue long...
Premier Poincaré journeyed last week to Alsace-Lorraine, the "lost provinces" which his militant patriotism did so much to regain for France. Entering many a schoolroom he sat down quietly beside the teacher, listened while children cradled in German struggled to recite in French. M. Poincaré then requested the children to recite in German and noted carefully the difference in their proficiency. Said he, at Metz: "The children grow each year more proficient in our beautiful tongue. The difference since my last visit two years ago is most marked...
...likes to think of the pleasure Wendell would have taken in turning over the beautifully designed and printed pages. One may be permitted at the same time to wonder what the scrupulous teacher of English would have said to the final sentence in the publishers' remarks on the jacket: "Typographically the book will be welcome to all who care for fine printing since the type was arranged by Bruce Rogers." Barrett Wendell may even be imagined as asking, with a twinkle in his eye, what reception is to be expected from those who cared for fine printing before the type...