Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the entire life of the project we were in the midst of a world war . . . There was a real teacher shortage...
Under the circumstances it is understandable that ... an occasional teacher under provocation would lapse in the matter of corporal punishment. That any of these teachers "hated" children simply...
...Ransom, now a professor at Ohio's little Kenyon College (and editor of the Kenyon Review), celebrated his 60th birthday. In his honor, the Sewanee Review, the oldest of U.S. literary quarterlies, has devoted its entire forthcoming summer number to an estimate of Ransom as poet, critic and teacher...
...itinerant Methodist preacher, John Ransom was born and raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects...
Ransom's students have learned that he expects to be treated only as "one gentleman among others." Says Tate: "I think he was a great teacher by not being...