Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freshman orientation is elaborately discussed in the January "Educational Review" by C. H. Ho, a Chinese student at Teacher's College, Columbia. The attraction of the article lies in the data amassed. The instances cited show the colleges laboring hard with the problem of tucking in the bib and enticing the child to sit down to the feast...
...similar to his operation in Chicago 19 years before on Lolita Armour. He was world-famed for his technique; would do much good to some cripples; would attract medical and surgical students to his amphitheatre, students who might later attend his Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics. He was their Messiah. Back of his tired, wrinkled brow, back of his white beard and moustache, they saw only the kindly doctor. From overwork...
...Teacher John Thomas Scopes remains convicted. The "classic struggle" has been permitted, by its erstwhile foam-mouthed partisans on both sides, to dwindle into obscurity. The anti-evolution law stands in Tennessee, but, satisfied with their momentarily magnificent gesticulations, the evolutionist newspapers no longer keep bright the diadem of obloquy with which they crowned that state...
Last week Teacher Scopes' lawyers filed with the Supreme Court of Tennessee a brief appealing his conviction. It outlined the final argument in the case. It tried to contest the issue which the prosecution first raised and then eluded in the first trial - the religious issue. It endeavored not only to reverse Teacher Scopes' judgment but to overthrow the Tennessee anti-evolution law, which latter was the original purpose of Scopes and his defenders, together with the vaguer purpose of educating the public upon the fact of evolution...
...There is no such thing as proving it [my coming as the world teacher] : you must feel it, you must realize it. ... You may ask how you physically know that such a stupendous individuality, such a di vinity, will be among us. I ask, how do you know when you are in love when you are thrilled with affection? You do not give any explanation, for you feel you cannot give positive proofs. It is the same with me; because I believe in it intensely I am willing to throw up everything. With that belief in the background...