Word: teachers
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Charpentier has followed the dramatic method of his teacher Massenet, "Louise" is significant for its abundant melodic invention, its captivating coloristic treatment of the orchestra, and for the ingenfous manner in which he has woven the songs by which the peddlers announce their calling into the introduction and first scene of the second act. The role of "Louise" is conspicuously suited to the histrionic and musical abilities of Miss Garden, and the opera as a whole presents a graphic picture of a Bohemian Paris which has almost ceased to exist...
...delegation to survey and report conditions in Central Europe and the Balkans, all contributed to his immense store of practical experience. The friendly compacts which he had reestablished with statesmen in foreign countries kept him intimately in touch with the world-wide movements. We have all lost a great teacher, and a friend who because of the nobility of his character was particularly qualified to interpret the affairs of other nations and so to enlighten his own countrymen...
...however, only as a teacher and scholar that Professor Coolidge was prominent at Harvard. In 1909 he became Director of the Harvard College Library, and it is largely due to his great interest, and gifts as an administrator that the University has achieved its recognized primacy among similar institutions the world over in this respect. It is due to his instrumentality that Harvard acquired great collections on France, Latin America, the Near East. Prussia and Slavic Europe; and to him is also due the acquisition of a splendid collection of books connected with the Great War. Throughout, his administration...
Married. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, 51, onetime Collector of Internal Revenue, massive center in '99 for the Princeton football eleven, of Manhattan; and Mrs. Norma Jones Steelsmith, 37, school teacher, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; in Manhattan...
...sees fit, and with perfect frankness and freedom. And the fact that no compulsion is placed on the undergraduate either in this respect, but that he seeks knowledge of his own will, is likely to better the relations. For unfortunately the virtues of experience as a teacher do not overshadow the waste and frustration that accompany her instruction. Particularly fortunate, then must the student, still grasping his diploma uncertainly, think himself who can have a man, seasoned and successful in this schooling, to guard him against needless buffetings...