Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with an inexperienced three-man faculty and 18 boys, Kent School opened its doors in a ramshackle Connecticut farmhouse. Father Sill was vowed to lifelong poverty, chastity and obedience, but where Kent School was involved, he proved a shameless beggar, a tireless publicist, a resourceful promoter and a born teacher of boys...
...York City, several thousand school kids were out, and tangling frequently with cops, in a strike that had completely lost its point days before. They had originally cut classes in sympathy with the city's teacher-coaches, who had struck to get extra pay for their sport chores. Long after the coaches had gone back to work, their pupils had not. The kids simply changed their slogan from "No sports-no school" to a call-to-arms with more appeal: "Shorter hours, more sports, less homework...
...mind behind the loudspeakers is R. Russell Porter's, radio director of Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia. He wanted to do something to improve Kansas' remote rural schools. He got free time from a local station, but discovered that most rural schools had no radios. Since then Parent-Teacher Associations and similar groups have rounded up receivers, finding battery sets when a school lacked electricity. Five stations gave free time. If the idea pans out, Kansas scholars may have more such classes-but no one expects that an announcer will ever replace the teacher...
...easy attitudes of complete cynicism on the one hand or Pollyanna optimism on the other are equally disastrous; it is a narrow and perilous knife edge that teacher and student alike must walk...
Died. John Gale Hun, 67, founder (1914) and headmaster of the Hun School (boy's preparatory) and of Princeton's best-known tutoring school; of a stomach hemorrhage; in Trenton, N.J. A famed teacher of dullards, an inveterate poker player, a kindly wit, Dr. Hun helped many a husky lad get into Princeton University and stay there...