Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing from his home town-"A prophet is not without honor, etc." Not so, Senator Willis as a student in the University here had the love and respect of his teachers and all who knew him best. His unusual intellectual capacity as a mere boy was recognized by the faculty and students as nothing short of remarkable. . . . Willis advanced by leaps and bounds in college; and while yet in knee pants, so to speak, became a teacher and professor of law. His neighbors sent him to the legislature of his own state, then later to the lower house of Congress...
...appreciate himself. Another theory is that, after his wife died in 1917 towards the end of his first term in the Senate, he turned to politics with fresh concentration as other bereaved men will turn to business, pleasure or a new wife. He started life as a school teacher. Lately he has become more and more a political disciplinarian: grim, Dry, statuesque...
Cornelia Storrs Adair of Richmond, Va., first classroom teacher ever to be elected president of N. E. A., made backward delegates feel at home, bustled up to greet Harvard's Lowell, attended teas, smiled maternally for petulant photographers, said little for publication, was awarded an especially created degree, G. L. (Gracious Lady), by the Massachusetts Teachers' Federation. A mathematics master, Harry C. Barber of Philips-Exeter Academy, was elected to succeed Miss Adair as president at the next convention...
...Professor Francis J. Child, or "Stubby", as he was known to the undergraduates at Harvard. He corrected English A themes for 25 years, even though he had attained national fame as a writer of ballads. There are ten characteristic poses of the man, both as student and as teacher...
...captured a short distance from the school by residents of the mining town who ; had heard the screams of the school teacher and other pupils, and is being held for the sheriff...