Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philadelphia, starting its plan later, has added a couple of refinements, including a teacher who is himself a former lieutenant colonel. Veterans, in their separate school, are allowed to smoke in class. They are given a starting bonus of one credit in physical education (because they've had G.I. exercise) and one-half unit in social science for having gone through Army or Navy indoctrination courses. The 39 now enrolled (ranks: private through captain) cram 30 hours of classwork and 30 hours of homework into each week, which will allow them to complete a year's schooling...
Best known in the U.S. was Professor Karl Hofer, 67, a steady follower of Cázanne, and a venerated teacher at the Berlin Academy until the Nazis, kicked him out. In 1938, the Carnegie International jury gave its $1.000 first prize to Hofer's The Wind, which pictured two defenseless figures huddling against a swirl ; it might well have been the ill wind faced by non-Nazi Germans. Herr Goebbels, the furious Fährer of Nazi art, who had previously let Hofer paint but not exhibit in Germany, thereupon forbade him to paint at all. But Hofer...
Doctors could do nothing with a brooding G.I. mental patient in Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, until one of them noted on his medical records that he had once been a flutist in a symphony orchestra. They sent for a music teacher and a flute...
...soldier ignored the teacher, but took the flute off by himself. Soon he was playing it, and taking lessons daily. As the memory of music came, his despondency went. Last week he was discharged, a mentally healthy veteran...
...flute and the teacher (Mrs. Vitya Vronsky of the piano-team of Vronsky and Babin) were sent to the hospital by Washington's Music Canteen, an enterprise to make G.I.s their own entertainers...