Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...duties of citizenship. Though the departments of history and political economy are crowded with students, yet in the former United States history is almost entirely neglected, while in political economy there is but one instructor for every 100 students, as against an average for the whole university of one teacher to 9 scholars, (163 instructors, 1,428 students.) What is needed in these departments is an increase in the amount of instruction, instructors of learning and reputation, and courageous, fairminded discussion of topics of the day. The scientist or philosopher must not be allowed to lose sight of the fact...
...said a conscientious teacher, "do you know why I am going to whip you?" "Yes," replied the young hopeful; "because you're bigger than...
...EDITOR OF THE N. Y. EVENING POST - Sir : The other day my son, aged about fifteen years, asked me the meaning of a certain objectionable passage in a play of Shakespeare, which, he said, he was instructed by his school teacher to analyze. Surprised that the boy should have such subject matter given for his lucubrations at so early an age, I made inquiry at the school, at the same time expressing my desire that he should receive other subject-matter for his studies in composition. I was informed in reply that, as the boy was understood to be preparing...
...Frazier, school teacher in Cumberland, Ohio, in the course of a general fight in the school-room, stabbed and killed John Hayes, aged 20, and severely cut John Luce...
...graduates of the Annex I am not yet prepared to speak.) Whatever the liberally educated man (or woman) should or should not know, no argument is needed to show that he (or she) should be able to write good English.' Professor Hill has that first quality of a good teacher, the power of holding a startled attention. His keen-edged sentences oblige one not only to listen but to believe; for his vigorous style is clearly the natural outgrowth of a sound and vigorous judgment. It is this honest severity of training that women's minds at this moment need...