Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Picture a brisk, compact man of 55, with German blood in his veins and a wide experience of U. S. life, once a practicing attorney in his native Nebraska before he became a teacher of law. His personality matters little. His mind astonishes. The analytical and retentive powers are developed to a point that permits him to lecture, with staggering speed and intricacy and unfailing accuracy of citation, unaided by a single note. Second only to his accuracy is his energy. To hear Dean Pound tally up the work he has despatched in a day sounds like an ordinary...
...moves his caravan from one fair to the next, establishing coconut-shies at each as a sideline. His children, numbering six† are sent, immediately upon arrival at a new location, to the nearest village school, presentably dressed and bearing testimonials to their character and ability from their last teacher. Tombino, large of girth, bright of eye and smile, possesses many of the good things of life and does not intend that his children shall be denied them through want of wit and learning. There is a boy of 17 who can con Vergil with any Etonian. A younger...
...been connected with the University were commemorated at a dinner given in his honor at the Harvard Club last night. The dinner was given by Professor Hart's colleagues of the division of History, Government, and Economics in recognition of his 50 years as a student and teacher in the University...
Professor Killam is a native of Boston, and early went into the office of Peabody and Stearns, Boston architects. He later became a teacher in Cambridge School of Architecture for Women, and from here, he was called to the University, and came to the Department of Architecture in the year 1908-09, as an instructor in architecture and civil engineering...
...most important functions of a student committee on education, it seems to me, is to increase faculty student cooperation. In spite of the fact that both groups are presumably working with a common aim, recognition of this is too often prevented by the attitude of 'pupil against teacher' which carries over from school. Students assume that professors exists in order to cram dull facts down their unwilling throats, and the faculty take that attitude for granted. When, however, a report appears like that of the Harvard Committee, it demonstrates the existence among students of real interest in education, and indicates...