Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...body the amendment was read, and several men corroborated the testimony of Mr. Smith, and pointed out that it is as unfitting that waiters should also be directors, as that one who is bidding for a building contract should be himself a member of the building committee, or that teachers should be on the school board that employs them. A waiter may make an excellent director, as a teacher may make an excellent member of the school committee, but in either case it is inexpedient, in view of the possible complications, that the same man should act in both capacities...
...teacher and educator Dean Shaler combined the exacting standards of the old-fashioned school-master with a breadth of view and a progressive spirit which lead him to welcome and vigorously promote all improvements in educational methods. He was one of President Eliot's most active and useful so-workers in the many educational reforms accomplished in the University during the last 35 years...
...ardent, combative, filled with poetry and romance, instantaneously responsive in his feelings. "I hold it," he said, "a part of my business to do what I can for every wight that comes to this place"; and thousands of men bear witness that this was the truth. No teacher in Harvard University within my recollection has roused so many minds or touched so many hearts. L. B. R. BRIGGS...
Dean Shaler touched life at so many points that it is difficult to say in what relation his death will be most felt. The government of the University loses in him a successful administrator, sagacious and resourceful, and a stimulating and inspiring teacher; his colleagues, a delightful associate and comrade, whose words and ways brightened many a tedious hour; the students, a warm-hearted, whole-souled friend. Those of us who live near the Yard will miss his picturesque figure, like that of a handsome Andrew Jackson, in long raincoat and soft hat, striding along with the familiar swing...
...University, ruled by a rector and by the four faculties of Letters, Science, Law and Medicine. Not only are reports on all the actions of their university, sent in by these rectors, but investigations are always being carried on by special inspectors, and the complete record of each teacher and official is field at the Central Bureau in Paris...