Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave pause and enlightenment: 1) those who think that "civilization" came to North America with the white man; 2) those who think that pre-white civilization is now cheapened or extinct. The man who made both views appear distinctly stuffy was René d'Harnoncourt, Austrian-born artist, teacher and brightest young blood in the Interior Department's Office of Indian Affairs...
...that she sometimes takes voice lessons: "I have had a lesson this morning with Mrs. Elizabeth von Hesse, who tries in the brief opportunities I occasionally give her to improve my speaking voice. All I can say is that if she is successful I consider her a most extraordinary teacher, for I give her very little opportunity to teach...
...Education, a process of tempering and redirecting natural impulses, is itself frustrating. Sample pupil aggressions: throwing spitballs, putting a toad in teacher's desk...
...knowing how he stood there but suddenly he was aroused from his hypnosis by a clangorous blast of shrill, female voices. He glanced in the direction of the tumult and instinctively braced himself at what he saw. There, headed by a stern, prim, capable-looking teacher (she couldn't have been anything else but a teacher), was a horde of adolescent females sweeping down...
Recognizing Jaeger's attainments in the fields of classical literature, philology, archaeology, and philosophy, the University conferred an honorary Litt, D. degree on him at the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936 with the citation "A critical student of the great master who once dominated the universities, an eminent teacher of the eternal wisdom of Aristotle...