Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system of judging scholastic ability is deficient, such has long been the contention of critics; but improvement is being sought here by a change in the very nature of college work. President Lowell's recent remarks at Chicago, apropos of modern educational methods, represent the standpoint of a progressive teacher...
...Mencken, writer, was told indirectly that his influence among the youth of the nation had been hung in a closet. "Even in a freshman class when one ventures a 'Menckenism,' the others smile," said Robert Hillyer, poet, teacher at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., who is going to the Harvard faculty next autumn...
...They fired me for bringing in a couple of rattlesnakes and-and assaulting a teacher."-THE VARMINT, by Owen Johnson...
...Among teachers of Speech, Sincerity ranks a paradoxical first. Healthfulness is held in least favor by the Department of Mathematics. But most illuminating when connected with the present state of society is the ranking of the special virtue of Chastity. Placed lowest of all by the teachers of the social sciences, it finds haven in the assistant professor, only teacher to give it any place...
...become investors. Trustees of Bennington College, chartered in 1924, to open next year, announced last week that they will provide "a curriculum planned to prepare women to meet the problems of the modern world." Other aims: emphasis on the individual, learning through living, community life, breaking down barriers between teacher and student, a selfsupporting college. Robert Devore Leigh, professor of government at Williams, will be president. Trustee James Colby Col- gate has given a building site at the foot of the Taconic range near the village of Old Bennington, Vermont. Proposed endowment: $1,000,000. Cash in hand...