Word: teachers
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...published in the current number of the Alumni Bulletin. The writer finding that his training in English has meant little more than a harrowing grind for divisional criticizes the Harvard system of instruction as applied to this department, declaring that the right kind of contact is not established between teacher and student and that "the constraining effect of divisional examinations" must be removed before a "taste for beauty" and a "cultivation of critical standards" can be instilled into the student...
George William Goethals, son of a Dutch emigrant, attracted the roving notice of a Manhattan public school teacher. This percipient pedagogue besought a politician, and presently George W. Goethals was registered at West Point. A harassed and instinctively American registrar concluded that anyone inscribed as George W. must have been baptised George Washington. Hence an able Dutchman was graduated, second in his class, George Washington Goethals, and lived to become the second most eminent George Washington of the U. S. Army...
Charles Townsend Copeland has been one of those rare scholars who have truly appraised the personal relation between teacher and pupil. He relied more on direct contact than on lectures, books and formulas, but his courses nevertheless have been popular, and the fame of his readings has traveled far beyond collegiate circles. But it has been by summoning the members of his composition course "English 23," to his rooms in Hollis to read aloud their themes to him, and by gathering others together on winter evenings to exchange ideas about everything this side of the moon, that his influence...
Despondent over the incapacity of English tennis players as winners or even serious contenders for the Davis Cup, Britain has hired a teacher. Karl Kozeluh, a leading professional tennis player of the continent, winner last week of an unofficial professional championship of Europe at Beaulieu, France, goes to the All-England club to tutor budding Britons. He is a Czechoslovak...
...favor. There was no musical background. His mother died when he was three. His father, a Polish farmer, was banished to Siberia for his mutterings against Russian rule. The boy wanted to be a pianist but he had small, stubby hands that would not reach an octave. His first teacher was a violinist with scant knowledge of the keyboard...