Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Browns practice only three times a week, but spend a lot of time in Teacher Brown's classroom. "I talk to them exactly as I lectured college students [at Ohio State University] and I expect them to respond as students." An excerpt from the notebook of Quarterback Cliff Lewis: "Defense is mainly desire-the will to get this thing over with is the only thing that can end it. Tackling will win or lose a game. Gang them viciously...
...established the nation's first agricultural experiment station. It was the first U.S. school to provide a post-graduate course for the Ph.D. degree. Then crusty old Elias Loomis pioneered in devising the basis for modern weather maps and Bertram Boltwood discovered ionium. Sheffield's most famous teacher: Josiah Willard Gibbs, the top mathematical physicist of his day, who laid down the laws which form the basis for modern thermodynamics...
...girl "as blonde and as genuine as a sand dune," and discovered to his surprise that he could make a living and even support a family (two children) by teaching art. Now he heads the Department of Painting at Michigan's progressive Cranbrook Academy. It was a teacher who gave Sepeshy his first incentive to become an artist. "If I hadn't wanted to 'show' that drawing teacher who had flunked...
...education than any other nation. What sort of education is it? In a new book, out last week, the Russians answer for themselves. I Want to Be Like Stalin (John Day; $2) is a translation by George S. Counts and Nucia P. Lodge from an official Soviet text on teacher training-a sort of catechism of Communist right & wrong for Soviet teachers. It is as soggily written as books on pedagogy are apt to be under any form of government, but behind the dull words is a horrifying picture of what young Russians are being brought up to believe...
Lower Learning. Horizon's contributors saw the U.S. as a land of Main Streets, movies and middlebrows. Columbia Professor Jacques (Teacher in America) Barzun, searching for "the Higher Learning in America," found only "an immense amount of Lower Learning. . . ." Writing, painting and sculpture were in a bad way, too. Observed Partisan Review's co-Editor William Phillips: ". . . It is almost impossible for a writer to starve, since [there is so much] easy money [that] it is difficult to be the kind of writer who might starve...