Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduates. With the efficient elimination of friction between the scholar and the simple seeker of a baccalaureate degree devotees of higher learning are apt to lose one of their few remaining contacts with the world. Just this lack of varied experience prevents the scholar from becoming a great teacher. Since the American plan of advanced study well nigh excludes its followers from the untheorized actions of their fellow men, it is to a certain degree incomplete...
William Osier (1849-1919), Canadian, was a great teacher in the U. S. and England; wrote extensively. Most of these men lived to a ripe old age, to study, heal and teach. Of the moderns, Lister and Morgagni were 85 years old at death. (Hippocrates was either 99 or 73 according to conflicting dim reports of his life.) The youngest to die was Laennec...
...made it possible for Pomona in the midst of the booming, expanding West, with the tenth largest city in the U. S. (today) close at hand, to adopt and maintain the characteristics of a "small college," like Amherst and Williams, Knox and Antioch. Intimacy, hospitality and the individuality of teacher and taught are prime among these characteristics When popularity and population pressure increased, Pomona firmly fixed 700 as its maximum enrollment figure. Rigid selection of entrants was enforced...
...Since landing, Hoff has done some running on indoor tracks that was anything but slouchy. Last week Hoff bethought himself of Osborne's talk and called him out to meet him, at the Knights of Columbus games in Manhattan next month, in an all-round athletic duel. Sportdom awaited Teacher Osborne's reply, hoping much that the joust might be but realizing the obligations that are a pedagog...
Last week the National Kindergarten and Elementary College of Chicago published a tabulation of conversations recorded in 30 U. S. and Canadian kindergartens over a month's time. "I" was the word used most frequently, averaging 1,044 times; "the" was second, 616 times; "teacher" came eighth; "what," 13th; "mother," 24th; "father," 80th ("papa" appeared entirely obsolete). "Please" and "thank you" were almost unknown. City children knew fighting words and slang. The size of an average kindergartner vocabulary was not made public after this laborious study...