Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frisco line. Frances Hutt was not only pretty and a gifted singer; she was also smart enough to be high school valedictorian. With $400, proceeds from a Kiwanis concert, and a railroad pass from her father, she set out for New York to study singing. Through her teacher she met a promising baritone named Thomas E. Dewey. After a tour in George White's Scandals, Frances married Tom Dewey...
...graduation he was torn between music and law. He plunged into both. When a famed voice teacher, Percy Rector Stephens, encouraged him to continue his voice training in New York, he saw an even more interesting opportunity. The Professor's secretary, a gifted mezzo-soprano, Frances Eileen Hutt, of Sapulpa, Okla., was also going to New York...
...like to see made in our public schools?" More than half (57%) of the polices were satisfied with schools as they are. Of the 43% who suggested changes, most spoke of such things as curricula, administration, equipment. Only 10% of the discontented minority wanted better paid and better qualified teachers. Approximately 96 out of every 100 Americans seem unaware of the unchallenged fact that a log with Mark Hopkins at one end of it is still a far better school than the most expensive modern classroom presided over by a mediocre teacher...
...twelve, in school in Germany, Mann was asked the name of the sacred bull of the ancient Egyptians. He answered: "Chapi." The teacher scolded him for volunteering a nonsensical answer, said the right asnwer was Apis. But it was little Thomas who was right...
Yale students last week solemnly bade Godspeed to a professor, poet, zoologist, historian, philosopher and the world's foremost authority on spiders. This jack-of-all-sciences was Alexander Ivanovich ("Pete") Petrunkevitch, who after 34 indefatigable years as a Yale teacher was retiring...