Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resignation of Professor Hans Carl Gunther von Jagemann brings to an end with the current academic year an active teacher's career of 41 years, of which 36 will have been spent in the service of Harvard University. Throughout this period Dr. von Jagemann has devoted himself especially to Germanic Philology, and though at the beginning of his sojourn among us he did no little work in the German language and literature, he has of late given no courses which undergraduates are usually prepared to take. Upon graduate students, on the other hand, he has exerted strong influence, not merely...
...night train for Chicago puffed out of the Cheyenne station. In Harry F. Sinclair's private car were Martin W. Littleton,* George C. Hoover, other lawyers "of counsel for the defense." They left behind them John W. Lacey, ex-Hoosier, ex-school-teacher, ex-Chief Justice of Wyoming, gallant 76-year-old leader of the Rocky Mountain Bar, also "of counsel for the defense." Next morning's Chicago express puffed Eastward with Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, other lawyers "of counsel for the prosecution." The greatest trial in Wyoming history had come...
Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee received from his legislature a bill. The legislators of Tennessee saw fit to make it unlawful for any teacher in the universities, normal or other schools of the State which obtain state funds "to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals...
...Tennessee statute has long required: "At least ten verses from the Bible shall be read or caused to be read without comment at the opening of each and every public school upon each and every day by the teacher in charge, provided the teacher does not read the same chapter more than twice during the same session...
...administrators of the College have long realized the importance of personal contact between student and teacher, but as the college continued to grow and classes continued to increase proportionately, the problem became more perplexing. Individual members of the faculty have in many cases done all they could to meet the student more than half way. They have invited him to their houses and welcomed him on every possible occasion. In this way many students have been able to know as friends those who, to others, were cold lecturers in a crowded class room...