Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must emphasize that a teacher is primarily a private citizen, not a government employe. Consequently, as Schlesinger declares, he "must be protected in his right to think and speak freely--as a Communist, a Fascist, or whatever he wants...
...years as counsellor for Veterans behind him. After leaving his Indiana high school, Bender worked at various jobs on the New York Central, including section hand and caller of crews for departing trains. For two years he went to Goshen College; then followed a stint as a grade-school teacher, before his arrival at Harvard...
First and foremost, his experience is that of a teacher, and he still believes in "academic bureaucrats," or deans who teach. Right now, Bender gives occasional lectures in American history, but hopes to expand his pedagogic pursuits when things settle down a bit. From the time of his graduation from Harvard in 1927 until two years ago, he has been teaching here or at Andover. For a while he was a "baby dean," and formed half of the two-man team that developed the National Scholarship plan...
...conductor, who had almost singlehanded built a crew of amateur parlor-fiddlers into a professional orchestra. Forty years earlier he had gone to work as a Caracas cigarmaker because "there wasn't enough music to make a living at it." Later, as a self-taught harmony teacher, then as director of Caracas' School of Music, he plugged for a place for the arts in the national life. The revolution of 1945 gave him his big break. Elected to the Constituent Assembly as a supporter of President Rómulo Betancourt's Acción Democrática...
...townspeople gave their schoolhouse a new coat of paint inside & out; the well water was tested, and the grass was cut. On the first day of school the teacher, Mrs. Norman Melius, unlocked the doors and sorted out the textbooks. Not a pupil appeared. Every day for a month she showed up at the schoolhouse, but still no pupils came. Mrs. Melius was not surprised: it had been that way for three years...