Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...edit it, as well as deliver a dubbed-in commentary. For the jovial, baldish Jesuit, this was a congenial assignment. Father "Mike" Ahern, 60, is an accomplished Catholic publicist. Head of the departments of chemistry and geology at Weston College, New England Jesuit training college, he is also a teacher of philosophy, science and theology at Boston College, and, since 1929, speaker on Boston station WNAC's "Catholic Truth Period...
...costs about $20,000 a year (met by private contributions) to run Junior Programs, Inc. A company of artists gets from $200 to $400 for a performance. Local parent-teacher associations, boards of education or other groups sponsor the performances, put them on in schools or rented halls. All this makes it possible to give children top-rank musical and dramatic shows at 10¢ to 25?. The companies play an average of five times a week, frequently to overflow audiences. In Gallipolis, Ohio (pop. 7,100) a ballet drew 1,500 children from all the countryside. In Hartford...
When he was a youngster at Harvard, "Thorny" Thorndike began to study the instincts of chicks in his college lodgings in 1896. His landlady ousted his incubator as a fire hazard. So he moved it to the basement in the house of his teacher, a certain professor named William James. Next year the lad arrived at Columbia University to study under famed Psychologist J. McKean Cattell. Carrying two cages with the "most educated hens in the world," he sat down to rest on the steps of Seth Low Hall. A porter chased him away...
...Thorndike. The record of the Thorndike family confirms his own emphasis on the importance of heredity. His late brother Ashley was one of the foremost U. S. Shakespearean scholars. Another brother, Lynn, is an authority on medieval history, his sister (now retired) was a brilliant high-school teacher. Of his four children, three are college teachers and the fourth an undergraduate, all unusual scholars...
...rolling stone who has picked up considerable polish as he revolved through a number of phases of the publishing business, Paul Gallico was born to an Italian musician in a boarding house. He worked his way through Columbia University as a North River stevedore, Metropolitan Opera usher, gym teacher and German tutor. In his spare hours he played baseball, football, was acting captain of the 1921 Columbia crew after a two-year hitch in the Navy. Somehow he found plenty of time to turn out pulp magazine stories and short newspaper fiction...