Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prerequisites, which lead to graduate courses where the brilliance of the Department's permanent staff can eventually be appreciated. Since most undergraduates never intend to carry their Math studies that far, their concern is not stimulation by genius or authority but understanding and interest created by a good teacher...
When Stalin celebrated his 60th birthday on Dec. 21, 1939, every member of the Politburo but Zhdanov had some variation of the congratulatory tribute to "our father and teacher, our bright sun, hope and glory of peoples" printed in all Russian newspapers. Zhdanov was not even allowed at the party...
This has been a strange dislocation and transformation for a man who was once nicely settled in Cambridge University as a teacher of philosophy with a passion for mountain climbing. Two things, however, failed to fit into this picture: his acute intelligence, which made him suspect that often the greatest philosophers don't make sense; and his conscience, which wouldn't rest till he found out why they failed to make sense. C. K. Ogden was then at Cambridge, and interested in the treacheries of the language, and together he and Professor Richards probed the question. Their findings were...
Pointing out that the matter of degree requirements was one for "a teacher's judgement," the committee nevertheless called attention to the difficulty, and possible injustice, of requiring otherwise able students tot have had as much as three years of Latin or four of mathematics--often considered the bare min- imum...
...lipstick than on their Latin, amiable Dr. Wood has built the college from a 1912 enrollment of 52 (and a $100,000 deficit) into a thriving academy that picks & chooses its lucky girls. Stephens has had such attractions as 75-year-old Maude (Peter Pan) Adams as a dramatics teacher. Talent scouts-who are called "admissions counselors"-give prospects the onceover, report (among other things) on their "comeliness" and home-town popularity. Stephens prefers not to waste its makeup, clothing and budget clinics, its courses in nutrition and home management, on the hopelessly homely or the misfits...