Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beard, My Beret." A change was just what the board of trustees wanted. The board had already eliminated one political science teacher for "ultraliberal views"-bearded, mild-mannered T. Barton Akeley, who had been popular with his students but not with the town ("My beard, my beret. They just can't take idiosyncrasies"). When some of the students picketed in protest, Ashby was outraged. At his convocation, he promised to eliminate "termites" with a squirt of DDT (TIME...
...survey of nationwide education trends, the New York Times proved it, with figures. In 1940, reported Education Editor Benjamin Fine, the average U.S. public schoolteacher got only $1,441. Scant though this was, it was nearly $150 above the norm for all wage and salary people. This year, the teacher averages $2,644-slightly better than 1947-48's figure ($2,476), which was still about $250 below what the average U.S. jobholder...
Sunday-School Teacher. Dean Weigle's educational influence has reached not only academic highbrows, but littlebrows as well. Generations of Sunday-school children have been taught by the methods advocated in his book, The Pupil and the Teacher, which has sold close to 1,000,000 copies. Since 1928, Dean Weigle has been chairman of the executive committee of the World's Sunday School Association (now the World Council of Christian Education). In this capacity he is still a vociferous opponent of the ban on teaching religion in the public schools. Says he: "When the public schools ignore...
Died. Willie Howard (real name: William Levkowitz), 62, wizened, mop-haired stage comic who convulsed theatergoers for half a century with his low-comedy antics (best known routine: his characterization of Professor Pierre Ginsberg, a French language teacher); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan. The son of a cantor, Vaudevillian Howard made his debut at twelve as a boy soprano, scored his big hits teamed with older brother Eugene in the Shuberts' Winter Garden revues and George White's Scandals...
...that party wase so nice wish we could have one every day. my presents were so nice. and the goodies were good too. When Claudia broke the bag the nuts came tumbling down on my head. the chair game was nice too. poor me got left out. all the teachers was nice to us. and all the teachers were pretty too. I had presents for some of the teachers too and I was going to give the teacher one next year to. but I did not know where you lived...