Word: teacheres
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...love with the Classics; for how could I otherwise lay any claim to respectability? Can he be a scholar who does not know that AEmilia Secunda, the younger daughter of Lucius AEmilius Paulus, married Marcus Porcius Cato, the son of Cato Major? or that Hermogenes Tigellius was a music-teacher, probably a Greek, and perhaps an adopted son of L. Tigellius? Assuredly not. These and similar facts constitute the very basis of an education...
...small boys thinks he is the governor. He rather enjoys this, and does his best to carry out the illusion. He has spied one or two pretty girls in his audience, whom he proceeds to regard especially, to the eminent danger of subverting the discipline of the school. The teacher calls out his pet class to recite in Virgil, and our "dig" (ah, so fallen!) takes the offered book. He listens nonchalantly to a translation, and a number of questions from the teacher, when the latter, perhaps seeing the state of the case, suggests that his visitor asks the class...
...most noticeable feature of the Report this year, as of the last two, is the record of the attempts made to raise the standard in the different departments of the University. The requirements for admission and graduation have been made stricter, and the number of teachers has been largely increased. In the College alone, "the present number of teachers of all grades is more than double the number employed in 1866-67; and every teacher gives at least as much time to the College now as then...