Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take any distinguished teacher, smart Seniors will tell you. Find out his favorite subject and take that course when he gives it; do it often enough and you'll have an education. What happens when a fine lecturer with loving knowledge of his specialty teaches that very specialty is illustrated by Frederick Merk, his watch, his pointer, and his History of the Westward Movement. Implacable enemy of the land speculator, chronicler of lusty American frontier democracy, the slight, earnest Professor is considered by many to have assumed the mantle of the late F. J. Turner as leading historian...
After five years of administrative worries as Head of the Department of History, Professor Merk retired last summer from bustling Holyoke House to a Widener study; there he spends most of his day, doing the research which he maintains any teacher must continually do to keep himself fresh and alive. But it is as a lecturer that Harvard men know him. As Department head, Professor Merk says he early found that "when a man teaches something he likes, he teaches it better." The little dynamo with the thrilling voice is himself a working model that proves the statement...
...round up teaching talent, Military Government officers had gone on a two-month raid of the U.S. To many a teacher-starved U.S. board of education, the Government's campaign looked like poaching. For the 120 jobs in Germany, there were over 1,000 applications. Chief lure: an average salary of $4,500 (the same teachers would average $3,000 apiece in U.S. schools). In Germany, room & board will cost about $37.50 a month, and the Army does the teachers' apartment hunting. Other attractions: the trip abroad; the chance to get away from the routine of small-town...
...need for teachers of "intellectual capacity [and] kindling personality": "They tell . . . of a sacred studies master who was trying to instill into the head of a rather dumb pupil the meaning of a certain parable, and he finally said, 'What is the matter with your brains, anyhow? The simple peasants of Galilee understood. . . .' And the boy floored him by answering, 'Yes, sir, but [they] had a pretty good teacher...
Grandin and his wife have been married ten years and have two children. He is aware-but not half so aware as she is-that he has given his wife only perfunctory attention for some time, preoccupied as he is with his work as a teacher and scholarly writer. They look forward to their vacation with quite different intentions: he to make up for his neglect, she to force a showdown about it. The showdown takes a form neither had expected when Grandin falls in love with a handsome Marine captain...