Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...length someone troubled to discover that Rabbi Wise had actually only said that modern Jewry must accept Jesus as a great Jewish teacher and indorse His ethical code. Later the Rabbi explained, that he had used the words "accept Jesus" in the sense of "accept Jesus as a man and a Jew." He said: "There is no question of embracing Christianity save by Christians...
...ought to put it all down in a book." This remark never failed to please him because he knew that it was true. Now he has acted upon it.* He has told what he remembers of Philadelphia in Civil War days, when he was going to a Quaker School. ("Teacher, what is a concubine?" "Thee stay in at recess, Sally Jane, and I'll tell thee.") He has told how he went into business to make money and made illustrations instead; how he drank coffee in the Venice of the '80s with William Dean Howells, Henry James...
...husband Shelton Hale L.L.B. '16. The Harvard Law School Association Scholarships were created by a fund raised in 1923 for the annual scholarships of $250 to first year students. The Herbert Parker Scholarship was established in 1924 with a gift of $5000 given by the Boston Elementary Teacher's Club in honor of Herbort Parker '78. The class of 1913 Scholarships were established in 1924 with a fund sufficient to provide two scholarships for the three succeeding years...
...education in session at Wesleyan University, advocated the total abolition of the lecture system in colleges. Colleges in America, he said, have developed under difficult external conditions, but he believed that perceptible progress had been made. He asserted that the lecture system forces all the work on the teacher and enslaves the minds of both teacher and student. Under the lecture system, the college is not teaching; it is merely instructing. Again speaking of the colleges he said, "They treat students as children. A young man should really come to college to learn for himself. This life of ours needs...
...must dislike the old shoes, likes the C-men. For by sincere effort he can make them "B" men--if not in college, at least in life. His calling is hard. The need of improving it remains the ghost in American academic closets. But if he is a true teacher he will enjoy it--enjoy it far more than Mr. Sherman--who is evidently more of a journalist than a faculty member. Indeed, to that inimitable essayist and Puritan, one must remark "Professor, How Could...