Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carl C. Countryman of New York, who is campaigning for President on the slogan: "Countryman for his countrymen, his countrymen for Countryman," suffered the loss of a gold-plated musical saw he had played for 25 years. "My heart is busted," said the 74-year-old poet-teacher-lecturer...
Sunday-School Teacher Barbara Jo Walker, Miss America of 1947, left New York by plane for Johannesburg, where she will help pick a Miss South Africa...
Fuess, Headmaster of Andover, declared that "teaching offers more satisfaction than any other job on earth." He added that the profession requires more personality than training, since "the best teacher is the man who luakes a definite impact on those he instructs...
Schuman thereupon had to reimpose many controls. Now, could he reverse the trend? Said 28-year-old Pierre Guiton, a history teacher, last week: "I hope he succeeds . . . but I have no confidence." Few Frenchmen, indeed, knew enough about their Premier to judge his mettle...
...central problem of teaching method and organization of the College. As I said yesterday, the tutorial idea seemed to be one of the best answers. The reason I say this is that it offers under the present system the only opportunity for real intellectual exchange and personal relation between teacher and student. The difficulty of the system is its expense. The question then is, are the available instructors being used to best advantage? I think they are not and what I suggest for consideration as a substitute is the seminar system, particularly as used at Swarthmore College. I feel that...