Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back in the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, we were taught that it is not good newspaper style to make a title of an occupation. Yet in TIME, May 18, Page 16, column 3, I read: "Teacher Scopes," "Evolutionist Scopes." Were Professor Silas Bent, now on the staff of The New York Times Sunday magazine section, and Professor Charles G. Ross, now chief Washington correspondent for The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, wrong when they gave us fledgling journalists such advice...
LYNDON PHIFER Brevity, accuracy, significance moved TIME to the adoption of such titles as Teacher, Evolutionist, Philosopher, Publisher, Ditchdigger, Bootlegger, Undertaker, Politician, etc., before last names. The teaching of Messrs. Bent and Ross is standard in the newspaper world. TIME, to be concise and to the point, breaks this and other canons of journalism.-ED. Fears Ridicule...
TIME's directorate has taken Purchaser Mynatt's plan for portrait book under advisement. Should the book be published, Mr. Mynatt will receive gratis a copy-as will also Vendor Beiler.-ED. Teacher...
John T. Scopes, teacher of science in a Tennessee high school, has been indicted by a grand jury upon the dire charge of teaching the theory of evolution to the innocent children of Rhea County. Therein, lies a situation which might be called a tragic farce...
...temptation for professors to neglect their students, because it is more interesting to write books and it is also their best means of winning a larger salary. The result is that the student, as a human being, is almost entirely neglected. . . . I believe a professor should be first a teacher and second a writer...