Word: teachers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Through years of instruction, he has proved himself in the words of President Lowell, "a teacher with a rare gift for making delight in literature contagious." His guidance ought to fulfill the promise that English A is to grow into a maturer course...
...Chinaman, its bird-eyed Siamese or swarthy, ruminative Hindu. Scholarships bring to the U. S. hundreds of the best young brains of the Orient. But there have been no Iowa farmboys studying in Tokyo, no Boston freshman at Peking or Madras. The self-sufficient Occident has always assumed the teacher's role in its colleges at home, in its Christian missions abroad. Yet lately there have come missionaries to the Christians from the followers of Buddha, Confucius and Krishna. And last week another reciprocity was announced. With money derived from staging their native dramas at International House, Manhattan, Japanese...
...clever, moves his family up to Knob Creek on the Louisville-Nashville pike. Young Abe walks four miles to school, a one-room school with no windows, a "blab" school where you say your lessons to yourself out loud until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion and brood mares. Sometimes it is warm and there are good "vittles"; sometimes...
When they finished reading the editorial, the mouths of the friends of the Tribune wore an acid expression that could not possibly have been caused by their breakfast eggs. They were thinking again of the schoolboy?of how he says, "Yes, I'm sorry, teacher. Naw, teacher, I'll never do it again," while at that very moment he is displaying, to the tittering class behind him, a pair of crossed fingers. "Is that," the friends of the Tribune wanted to know, "an apology...
...much does it cost to be a teacher? And once a teacher, how much is it worth? These questions, precise and succinct, are answered as tersely as they are asked in this month's School Life by Miss Elma B. Carr...