Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadus Mitchell, 20 years on Johns Hopkins' faculty, was acknowledged an outstanding scholar on the South's economy and a popular teacher. To the Sun (which had itself quarreled with and been denounced by him), Dr. Mitchell had "stood for many years as a symbol of academic freedom" at Johns Hopkins. He ran for Governor of Maryland as a Socialist,* excoriated Marylanders for the lynching of a Negro, quarreled with Hopkins trustees, once went to Duke University to tell its co-eds that Benefactor James Buchanan Duke "was lacking in social insight...
...also express our dissent with his valuation of another teacher with whom we happen to be acquainted. We feel that Professor Chamberlain is not only a good, but an excellent teacher, who in 101 made a subject of much inherent difficulty consistently interesting, and sometimes intriguing. He is, as clearly, outstanding in fairness and friendliness. Mr. Bunde probably much underestimates the continuing value of Professor Chamberlin's work in Monopolistic Competition...
Eventually paroled, Robert entered a teachers' college at Tempe, Ariz. His classmates found him hard to understand, envied his ability to wangle high marks with hardly any study. His teacher of public speaking was puzzled when Robert handed in an outline for a speech entitled "Murder," describing a "perfect crime." Recently Robert's acquaintances noticed that he was acting even more queerly than usual. He moved out of his dormitory, took a room in a hotel...
...Connecticut hills), is no mediocrity himself. Educated at Franklin and Marshall College, New York University, Cornell, Columbia and Oxford, he was a newshawk at three Olympic Games (1904, '08, '12), wrote 22 books on prose style, advertising technique, etc. He was also for 35 years a teacher of English, most of the time in New York City high schools, from which he retired at 60 last year. Teaching, journalism and writing developed in Professor Opdycke a horror of seeing mayhem committed on the English language...
...professor of French, gave his last lecture in French 7, "Romanticism and Realism in French Literature of the Nineteenth Century." For years Professor Allard has been one of the lecturers in French 6, popular French literature survey course. Yesterday he delivered in French his last remarks as an active teacher...