Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cornetist in the Metropolitan Opera House. After ten years with his orchestra, he resigned, has since become famed as a teacher, author, conductor, composer. He has written books on cornet playing. His best band compositions have been inspired by the preposition "On"-On the Green, On the Mall, On the Go. The American Indians, on the other hand, are responsible for such pieces as Cherokee, Sunapee, Sagamore, Eagle Eyes. Concerts given by his band in Manhattan parks and stadia have been remarkable for the perfect orderliness of the audiences. His organization has been called, "A Symphony Orchestra in Brass...
...What it means to be a teacher", as reported to The American Mercury and republished in that periodical's September issue...
Picture a schoolroom full of seated children, all tense, eyes forward, on the alert. Teacher sits tensely too, watching them breathlessly. Suddenly Teacher cries a sharp command. The children spring to their feet, jump up and down, leap on their chairs and desktops, run, scream, yell, pull hair, bleat, catcall, caterwaul, whistle, shout, gibber, bang fists, stamp feet, kick out, fall down, scramble around. Seeing the pandemonium slacken, Teacher joins the spectacle, waves arms, shouts, yells, halloos, squeaks, bellows...
...Then Teacher sits down. Another sharp command. Into their places shoot the children, sit erect, silent, stock still- still and silent as heaving, panting children can sit. The panting and the heaving cease. Silence settles down over the room like a soft rain. Nerves relax. Ebulliency is gone. Repose remains. Then back to lessons again...
...made up of pictures of the foods to be eaten and of children eating happily may be used to interest a child. Gummed stars may be pasted into the book whenever he eats certain foods. Be enthusiastic over the book and the child's progress. Get an outsider, his teacher if possible, interested in the book...