Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their fields. There is no reason to believe that men selected by their departments should be especially favorable toward their particular faculty, or that the faculty should choose its delegates with any sinister ulterior motive of gaining undeserved good will. Such conceptions hearken back to grade school days of "teacher's pets" and petty favoritism. The number of instructors in a single department is far too large to cull effectively those students who will most agreeably present their cases. And the liberal number of men consulted by the "Crimson," ranging from ten to fifteen, surely ought not to be based...
...Cincinnati, moppets ran home from the Bond Hill School with excited tales that their friends who whispered during a fourth grade play rehearsal had had their mouths taped shut by Teacher Norma Allen. When parents protested, the school's Acting Principal Marie Dachenbach declared that the whisperers had penitently affixed the tape themselves, at blameless Teacher Allen's suggestion...
...Albany, New York's Commissioner of Education Frank Pierrepont Graves reinstated Teacher Carrie Hynie of Highland Falls. Teacher Hynie, who had been dismissed in February for using a 12-in. ruler on the knuckles of Frances Sanders, 11, appealed to Commissioner Graves, explained: "Frances did not have her geography book. I tapped her very lightly once and her only outcry was 'Ouch.' " Ruled Commissioner Graves: "The use of corporal punishment under the circumstances related is insufficient cause for removal...
...prime example of his period and place, Noah Webster (1758-1843) was a school-teacher who by zeal and persistence became a Citizen Fixit to the whole U. S. Because he insisted on bursting out of his own bailiwick to mend his neighbors' manners, he was not popular; but before he died the U. S. was proud of him. Even more than his Dictionary his famed blue-backed Speller (which sold nearly 100 million copies before it went out of use) knit U. S. dialects together into one more-or-less standard tongue, poured a patriotic iron tonic into...
Copey, most venerable and most beloved of Harvard's institutions, is seventy-six today. His birthday will be celebrated at the Harvard Club of New York, where the famous teacher will give one of his annual readings to members of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association. Tonight's reading will mark the thirtieth of a series which began in 1906, the only break in the chain having occurred last year, when Copey passed his birthday in Cambridge...