Word: teachers
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...experience and information into new terms and new lights. The average undergraduate tends to meet studies like philosophy, psychology, economics, general history, with a frankly puzzled wonder. A whole new world seems to dawn upon him, in its setting and vocabulary alien to anything in his previous life. Every teacher knows this baffling resistance of the undergraduate mind...
...character was marked. Always first as a student in school, College and Law School, he nevertheless found time for much besides study. Whatever interested others in the way of physical sport or social diversion interested him and in everything he excelled. He brought to his work as a teacher and dean a sympathetic nature which readily understood the varied aspirations and interests of the young men under him. They felt him to be, as indeed he was, their friend; and like a friend he demanded their best and secured it. He was never too busy with study to deal with...
Students who have pursued the course for the Master's degree may also enter the Boston schools without experience elsewhere, as teachers in training. The position of teacher in training leads, after two years, to a regular certificate. During the training years the teacher is under the supervision of the Department of Practice and Training in the Boston Schools. A strictly undergraduate program in Education, with allied courses in Philosophy and Psychology is accepted under the Boston rules in lieu of one year of experience...
Murray Anthony Potter '95, assistant professor of Romance Languages, died suddenly from an attack of blood-poisoning at his summer home in Lancaster yesterday morning. He entered the University in 1891 and remained as a student and teacher until 1899, receiving his A. M. degree in 1897, and Ph.D. in 1899. After a year as assistant professor at Dartmouth, he was called back here, and has been a prominent member of his department ever since. His publications were of texts for use in his classes including an edition of "Sohrab and Rustem" and "Tabrada Cuentos Alegres." He was a member...
...than which none is more needed in American life. The value of his teaching moreover has always been exemplified as well as enhanced by his own rare charm of manner and of utterance. Even although his instruction abides in memory we shall yet miss the inspiring example of the teacher. BENJAMIN RAND...