Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some of the ill-spleened railers who love to carp at Harvard morals, some of those nice, good people who boast of having educated themselves, and never realize that they had a very poor teacher, if some of these would some time attend the college church services and observe the rapt attention with which Wendell Phillips and his colleagues are listened to, they would pause for a moment before trying to convince the world that college students are embryo Mephistopheles, and very minions of the lord of Hades let loose upon a lamb-like public, and going about seeking whom...
Young ladies' seminary. - Examination in history: Teacher-"Mary, did Martin Luther die a natural death?" Mary-"No; he was excommunicated by a bull...
...this, we will venture to say that Mr. Wilde fails to appreciate the essential mistake of his attitude before the public. His claim is that of a teacher, and as a teacher all are agreed he is not a success. There is an ingenuous egotism in Mr. Wilde's claim of this sort that would be amusing if it were not pitiful. Oscar Wilde has as yet done no sure work or presented any original thought which gives him any just claim upon us. The implied comparison of case with the treatment accorded such poets as Keats by the public...
...general preparatory culture to boys and youths, graduating them at the age of from eighteen to twenty. "It should be an institution for training the mind and disciplining the character, and should not aim to be an institution of learning, in the broad sense of the term. The teacher's personal interest in the student should not be diverted by ambition for renown as a scholar, nor the efficiency of his teaching encumbered by large numbers of students." This is eminently reasonable as a theory, and is really a statement of the swiftly-approaching fact as to the relations...
...services to which he was called here his work was earnest and faithful. The death of Prof. Ko seems, to our mortal reason, untimely. He had acquired some knowledge of our language and civilization. He longed that Chinese children should understand the English language. He was a teacher to all who came to know and esteem him. He taught us that the gentleman and scholar, the earnest and true man, is always the same. After the address, Prof. Everett offered prayer, and the choir sang a hymn from the chapel collection by Whittier. After the singing of the hymn...