Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jargon connotation. Something was denied his hand. He left his illustrations for the Century Magazine far behind, but he could never express himself perfectly. A certain crabbedness entered his nature through his sense of frustration. On a small scale he had the Michelangelic misanthropy. He said of his teacher, Duveneck "He liked me?which most people...
...trustees of the Seminary announced a few days later that Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church for 21 years, and teacher at the Seminary for 22 years-yet still on the early side of 50-was chosen to succeed Dr. McGiffert. He is a liberal in the church, with a background of scholarship at Yale, at the Seminary of which he now becomes President, at New-College, Edinburgh, and the University of Marburg...
They say that Daniel Willard's mind proceeds like one of his express trains-from start to destination without local stops. It must have run that way always. Born on a Vermont farm, he won a teacher's certificate before he was 16 and taught while finishing high school. Lacking funds to go to Dartmouth, he made the most of the Massachusetts Agricultural College-made too much of it, wore out his eyes. He got a track laborer's job with the idea of rising to the throttle of a locomotive, which he did in two years...
...counseled and sent down to tell the officials of the great Boston Marathon that he, a lad of 18, had come to win their race, though never in his life had he run more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence DeMar, the stalwart Sunday School teacher of Melrose, Mass., who had won four times and held the world's record, and of Albin Stenroos, iron-legged Olympic champion, who had come all the way from Finland to fag DeMar. It will chant how Johnny Miles ran respectfully, first behind DeMar and then behind Stenroos, ahead...
Professor R. S. Conway, the other English teacher, is a professor of the University of Manchester, and an honorary Fellow of Cains College, Cambridge. He as well as Professor Sikes, is a classical scholar of note and will take the second half year of Latin 8, dealing with Cicero and Lucretius, and Classical Philology 78 on the influence of political reflection in Latin poets and historians...