Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dunster found Harvard a poor secondary school, without head, or teacher, or corporate existence. Its handful of students were "dispersed in the town and miserably distracted in their times of concourse", the College building not half completed, and the legacy of John Harvard almost exhausted. Dunster left Harvard small indeed and slenderly endowed, but well provided with buildings, conducted with dignity and efficiency by young and enthusiastic teachers, corporate independence secured by a charter, discipline regulated by College statutes. Yet the manner of his leaving was tragic, and almost a century elapsed before the College recovered the prestige...
...with his customary charm he gives other than serious artistic justification for the compressed plays-"their brevity flatters my inability to sustain a long flight, and the inertia that barely permits me to write at all. And finally when I became a teacher, here was the length that could be compassed after the lights of the House were out and the sheaf of absurd French exercises indignantly marked with red crayon...
Certain friends of Prof. William Lyon Phelps spluttered with alarm when they read last week that he had been installed honorary pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. They envisioned the famed teacher, talker, critic, nodding meek approval on the platform of Calvary Baptist of the harsh fundamentalisms of Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor-in-chief...
Perceiving the timeliness of working with the Better Element, the Thompsonian school superintendent, William J. Bogan, made a belated effort to close various "ice cream parlors" which sell gin & sundries to high school minors. He suggested that members of the Parent-Teacher association become "vigilantes...
Professor Pratt has had a varied career as student, teacher, author, and traveller. After taking an A. B. at Williams, and an A. M. at Harvard he studied for a year at the Columbia Law School and the University of Berlin, after which he took a Ph.D. at Harvard...