Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cousin said that he was connected with the Tuft's Soda Fountain Manufacturing Company. At present I am very much occupied, for I am taking painting and drawing lessons, have a dancing master, take piano and singing lessons, go to riding and swimming schools, have a lady teacher for French and German, and a love of a gentleman teacher in Italian and Spanish, and learning to play the banjo; of course I don't paint much, but the teacher gives me all the pictures, so it doesn't make much difference...
...from cordial or pleasant; they both looked upon one another as something to be avoided, and seemed to think that their desires and purposes were completely opposed. "Progress," as Chuzzlewit's friend says, "has to a great extent removed this erroneous idea." Year by year student and teacher have continued to make advances toward each other, until they have now come to regard one another as valued friends, from whom much can be gained in the social intercourse out of the class-room. Especially is this true in the case of the younger instructors, in whom the remembrance...
...Prince of Wales, at a meeting lately held in Westminster Abbey to consider the scheme for a monument to Dean Stanley, after alluding to the dean as his teacher at the University of Oxford and as a friend, spoke in complimentary terms of our minister, Prof. Lowell, and of the cordial reception Dean Stanley had met in America...
...from carrying out his wishes in this matter; but the most potent one is that very often he cannot devote the time to it to allow him to go to Boston to meet an instructor. It would be an easy matter for the university to obtain some teacher of the piano to be in Cambridge on certain days to meet students desirous of receiving instruction, and the authorities could readily grant the use of some room in Boylston. It may be said that this does not properly come within the province of the university; that it savors too much...
...lady teacher of phonography thinks seriously of delivering a lecture called "A Practical Talk on Phonography" before the students...