Word: teachers
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...Zwemer sends a request from the Tabriz Memorial School, of Tabriz, Persia, for a French and an English teacher at salaries of $450 a year, including travelling and living expenses. Besides these two positions, Dr. Zwemer has received from various government and mission stations during the past year calls for 140 men. These positions are for teachers of English, physics, chemistry, music and architecture. Also several men are needed as business agents and station managers...
...young man of intelligence, personal force and executive ability, with a good supply of honest ambition, often excludes from consideration such profes- sions as the ministry or education, on the ground that his qualities would be thrown away in these professions, or because he thinks the minister or the teacher is presumably a man whose career is never voluntarily chosen but is marked out for him by the possession of certain so-called gifts, which no able-bodied, vigorous and ambitious man would envy...
...Differences in creed have caused an increase in the number of churches, until none now hold a position of influence or are able to provide comfortable circumstances for their pastors. The problem of giving an influential position to a minister is largely analogous to doing the same for a teacher, which has been accomplished to a great extent by state support. This, however, is impossible in the case of a clergyman, because a state religion is forbidden by the Constitution. The benefit which teachers derive from state support is surpassed to no small degree by their support by large endowments...
Turning to the question of the teaching staff, President Eliot pointed out that the selection of men teachers, with careful attention to their knowledge and ability to teach, is a peculiar quality of Radcliffe. Another advantage lies in the fact that most of them are comparatively young men, and, with few exceptions, the best time for the teacher is between the ages of 25 and 50. Radcliffe's greatest need lies in this. There ought to be a far greater fund for teachers' salaries, to permit of experimentation in developing the most appropriate courses for women...
SEMINARY ON AIMS AND METHODS OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY AND TEACHING. Topic: "The History of Thought and the Authority of the Teacher's Opinions as Means of Guiding the Student." Professor Royce. Emerson C, 7.30 P. M. Open to all Graduate Students of Philosophy who are registered either in Harvard or in Radcliffe...