Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tentative Jayvee schedule includes games with Bridgewater Teacher's College, Tufts Jumbos, Boston Boys Club, and Exeter...
...operatic formula picture, cut to fit the coloratura voice, the small, neat form, the pretty face and the sharp French accent of Lily Pons. The operatic basis for its plot is the one which enables Miss Pons to carol Caro Nome from Rigoletto to her provincial music teacher, to make a big splash in Paris, to exhibit her navel in Hindu undress as she negotiates the spectacular Bell Song from Lakmé. Introducing a second formula, Henry Fonda, a U. S. musician who thinks he can compose opera, picks up Miss Pons, performs the impossible under France's laws...
...range planning of a scholarly sort. ... In scholarly capacity, one might rate our faculty at about 75%; in willing laboriousness at 90%; in successfully awakening independent intellectual interest in pupils, at 70%. The odium of this last score should be borne largely by the institution, not thrust on the teacher, because St. Paul's does not exalt scholarship, and has preferred to turn out what is known as the all-round citizen, which means a person who excels in nothing. All-round means small-round." ¶ "Education is in part quickened by migration. Sentimental Americans are forever talking about...
Four years ago, when Rose Freistater, 26, of The Bronx applied for a teaching job, New York City examiners put her on the scales, shook their heads when the needle clocked 182. Refusing her a permanent job, they made her a substitute biology teacher, told her to train down to 150. For six months she rode horseback, hiked ten miles a day. dieted to the limit, became so weak that she ''could hardly pick up a thread.'' Then the examiners asked for her weight, still shook their heads when she said 160. Thoroughly demoralized, she stopped...
...supreme individualist, and yet his doctrines furnish the foundations for socialism, even in its oppressive forms. He is the champion of the rights of passion, and yet he was the leader in a movement ... of return to domesticity and the felicities of family life." Rousseau was the first great teacher to see the beauty in mountains and wild landscapes that previous ages had considered only horrible or terrifying. The man who has exercised this tremendous influence was nervous, sentimental, irresponsible, ill. Finding Rousseau's Confessions unreliable, Ellis gains more enlightenment from the 20 volumes of his correspondence, discovers...