Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capable of the critical digestion of great funds of knowledge. All important, they must be practical, must be able to turn out a finished, pruned product which will be useful and inspiring to the non-scholastic world. The type for this job is the great personality, the ideal teacher, the man who will be able to inspire the non-scholar group of undergraduates...
...research teacher will not be able to do this job; at least only the very rare exception will be able to do it. Mr. Conant himself would be capable of the job; one or two others now on the faculty stand out as definite potential candidates. But as a general rule the combination research-teacher is only an ideal in the eyes of undergraduates. Excellent teachers who are not research men will have to be kept on the faculty; excellent research men, who are not teachers, are just as necessary. Meantime, Mr. Conant has demanded that all his faculty turn...
...balance must be set up here between the scholar and the teacher: faculty members must be made aware of their position to the College, their chances for advancement; their duties must be defined and outlined more carefully...
...Conant's publicized ideal with regards his faculty members has been to get men who are either expert research men and good teachers or expert teachers and good research men. An expert research man may be defined as one who is working and studying in any subject (usually in a very limited field) and is getting results in the way of discovery and a widening of the borders of knowledge; tangible evidence of accomplishment will usually be in the form of a book or paper. An expert teacher may be defined as one who has a sufficient critical knowledge...
Livorno, in Tuscany, is the home of leghorn hats and the fencing school where Aide's father, Beppe, has been coaching Italian swordsmen for half a century. Beppe Nadi was the best teacher of his time. Aldo's older brother, Nedo, who visited the U. S. in 1930, was considered the finest fencer in the world when he retired two years ago. Reaching his peak after 25 years of vigorous training, Aldo Nadi inherited the family title at 34. Fencing experts agree that he is not only the equal of his brother but conceivably the most effective swrordsman...