Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the author of these lines, Ezra Pound, came bounding out of Idaho in 1900, he brought along one of the world's remarkable egos. He also brought a poetic flame, the divining eye of a natural teacher, and a motley personality-part despot, part poet, part pressagent. Clearly, he was in for an interesting time...
...Timesman is round, greying, 43-year-old George Walter Streator, new to daily newspapering but a veteran free lance writer, teacher and labor organizer for Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers. Lately he had worked for WPB's labor division. The Times, in hiring Streator for general reporting, followed the example of four neighbors : the Herald Tribune, Post and Brooklyn Eagle, each of which has one Negro staffer, and PM, which...
...folk dances. Then she teaches geometry, algebra, English, physics, chemistry and a variety of foreign languages until 3:30, when it is time to go home to clean house and start Fred's supper. Fred spends his days on administrative chores, touring the schools, filling in as a teacher whenever necessary, and working on his sideline job as president of the township bank...
Saint Augustine, "the Saint of the Intellect," is enthroned among the saints as "the first great teacher of rational thought." His Doctrina Christiana, "the earliest pedagogical textbook of the Western world," supplied "the foundation on which the first European universities were built." From his teachings arise the famed Protestant tenets of "the pre-eminence of faith over good works, of grace over reason...
Nadia Boulanger, former pupil of the French composer, has directed the festival, which will feature Faure's later and least-known works. Miss Boulanger was the teacher of Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, and Walter H. Piston, Jr. '24, professor of Music...