Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of 81 players on his varsity squad, 42 of whom were captains of their prep-school or high-school football teams. Starting the season with 177 varsity candidates, he weeded them out until he had three complete teams, any one of which the late, great Knute Rockne, his teacher, might have been proud of. Victor over Kansas, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Carnegie Tech, Army, Navy and Minnesota on successive Saturdays, last week Notre Dame added Northwestern to its string-and incidentally exhibited a substitute quarterback named Willard Hofer who scored all nine points of its 9-to-7 victory...
...teacher-training institution and most potent single influence in U. S. public education for some 30 years has been Columbia University's Teachers College. One of its most original ideas is its seven-year-old New College, an experimental undergraduate institution, which sends its students to get a liberal education in factories, on North Carolina farms, in Europe...
Five years ago in Majorca Robert Graves, 43-year-old poet, scholar, teacher and soldier, who gained U. S. fame with his account of his War years, Goodbye to All That, wrote his first Roman novel as a scholarly potboiler. Called /, Claudius and giving a sympathetic account of the emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...
Outdoing all other sonnet writers in volume, anyway Merrill Moore, Boston psychiatrist, WPA director, and teacher at the Harvard Medical School, is about to publish 1,000 of the 50,000 (50,000) sonnets he has composed in his 35 years...
Certainly this situation is unsatisfactory; more than that, it is unfair. There is still an implicit contractual agreement between student and teacher; for his course fee the undergraduate is still entitled to demand a certain amount of instruction in sections as distinguished from lectures. Only by limiting the freedom in which the Math A instructors now revel can the Mathematics Department effectively fulfill its duty to the average Math student...