Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minnesota blacksmith's son, Iowa farm boy, teacher-lawyer, able attorney, Spanish-War officer,* son-in-law of George Mortimer Pullman (sleeping cars), thrice a Congressman (1906-11), firm and constructive Governor,† grand-scale agriculturalist-Mr. Lowden is a pleasant, capable, 66-year-old city-man-turned-squire who stands looking at the Presidential chair with ambitious interest but with a gentlemanly restraint. He would not think of trying to climb up and sit in the chair without a genuine invitation...
...better element* in a Manhattan audience did so last week when an oldster came out on the stage of Carnegie Hall and with just a little difficulty made his way across and up on to the conductor's stand. He was 82-year-old Leopold Auer, teacher of such famed violinists as Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist. For the second time† in the ten years he has been in the U. S., Professor Auer was appearing in public-not in his own behalf but to lend importance to the debut of another pupil, Benno Rabinof. Eight years...
...which may in time come to play as important a part in the musical life of the community as the orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire; there will be three concerts this winter with soloists chosen by Madame Marcella Sembrich from the best vocal students. Leopold Auer, famed violinist and teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will select three of the most able violinists in the Graduate School and train them himself. An appropriation has been made for publishing worthy works by U. S. composers, to be issued as the Juilliard Editions. Rhoda Erskine, (sister of Author...
...limited experience both as student and teacher in other educational Institutions outside our own leads me to the suspicion that many of our smaller colleges have ceased to do any serious work in Greek, and some of the universities perforce by reason of the poor preparation of their students have degenerated into one sort or other of parlor-Greek. It is refreshing to me to be at Harvard once again, where for a student of Greek a thorough knowledge of the language is not an otiose desirability, but a necessity. Very sincerely yours, Arthur M. Young...
...There are so many candidates [for teaching positions] that there is danger of losing much of the ground gained during and since the War in making salaries more nearly match the work done," warned Dean Arthur Herbert Wilde of Boston University's school of education last week. "Teachers now in service need to advise very carefully all their younger friends who are looking toward teaching. Unless they have strong purpose and scholarship and attractive personality, these young people should be turned away from the teaching profession." Every teacher, man or woman, must come to regard teaching as a permanent...