Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those are the Osler Oration and the Frank Billings Lecture. Older of the two is the Osler Oration, named after the late Sir William Osler (1849-1919), great practitioner and teacher of medicine. Osler Orator this year is Dr. Lewellys Franklin Barker, 67, Canadian-born successor to Osler as physician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital...
...contribute: Nobel Prizemen Alexis Carrel and Albert Einstein, Dr. George Richards Minot (who later received a Nobel Prize), the late great Dr. William Henry Welch (1849-1934). The salutes to Dr. Libman filled three Libman Anniversary Volumes. Dr. Welch, who wrote the introduction, needed ten epithets for his hero: "Teacher, investigator, writer, skilled physician, exemplar and promoter of scientific research, generous helper of fellow-workers and pupils, guide, leader and friend of a devoted band of disciples...
...speaks with the authority of 12,000 members in 450 U. S. colleges & universities. Dues range from $1 per year for emeritus members to $4 for active members. Any teacher or researcher in an accredited institution may join. Founded in 1915 to "increase the usefulness and advance the standards and ideals of the profession," the Association has ever since been strenuously denying that it is a "professors' union," that its prime purpose is to champion victims of academic injustice. Its committees range from A to Z, busy themselves with such subjects as "Cooperation with Latin-American Universities," "Pensions...
Seeking Divorce. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 42, author (The Good Earth, Sons, House Divided), onetime Presbyterian mission teacher in China, resigned because of her religious liberalism (TIME, May 8, 1933); from John Lossing Buck, onetime agricultural missionary; in Reno. She was reported planning to marry President Richard John Walsh of John Day Co., who published her Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Good Earth...
...definition before the Associated Harvard Clubs a year age leaves a good deal of leeway. "It seems to me," he said, "that it will probably be more true in the future than it has been in the past that unless a university teacher is himself a live person and has an intelligent life of his own in which he is carrying on some sort of research, some sort of writing, some sort of scholarship, he will not be a teacher for mature students...