Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes a great teacher great? Last week one of education's timeless questions got a partial answer: a great teacher makes his students stretch...
...before France's dreaded college entrance exams. Timid, tense young Elaine Chollet asked the professor a question: Would he be kind enough to translate this English passage about Captain Forester? The teacher became agitated, hurriedly dismissed the class. That passage, he knew-but how did the student know?-was on one of the papers...
...story is a Hecht original: a great dancer (Ivan Kirov), subject to fits of homicidal insanity, marries a budding ballerina (Viola Essen), who hopes that his dancing and her love will work a cure. Great Teacher Judith Anderson and threadbare Impresario Michael Chekhov, torn between terror and balletomania, hover unhappily in the wings. Another sideliner, Poet Lionel Stander, grates out Mr. Hecht's own highly debatable views on Love & Art, and dashes an occasional gruelly tear from his granitic eye. To climax a triumphant tour, the dancer's mind finally cracks and he turns...
Romford's headmaster-to-be, Joseph Stetson, a teacher of science in Washington's Landon School, thought the notion "a little leftist" at first, but came around fast when he saw the kind of leaders who would preside at Romford's salons. Among them: Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas, Kaiser-Frazer's Joseph Frazer, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Scientist Vannevar Bush, ex-Supreme Court Justice James McReynolds, Connecticut's Governor Raymond Baldwin, China's U.N. Delegate Quo Taichi...
Saltonstall, a history teacher at Exeter since 1932, was just going to bed one night when Board Chairman Thomas S. Lament and retiring Principal Lewis Perry called and took him to the Exeter Inn. There the trustees broke the news. Students heard about it at Sunday chapel. They followed him home. Exeter's cheerleader called for "nine rahs for Saltonstall," and had trouble getting it out. Bill grinned. "Just call me Salty," he said...