Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conscientious devotion to his teaching, he won the affection of several generations of Harvard students. His interests in general educational methods impelled him to sit on many faculty committees. His responsibility for the introduction of the laboratory procedure into secondary schools earned for him the American Association of Physics Teachers' award for the highest contribution made by a physics teacher...
...Florence, Piero di Cosimo (he took the last name in honor of his teacher, Cosimo Roselli) was well regarded but not as illustrious as his contemporaries, Botticelli and Leonardo. In later, more grandiose times, he was not even well regarded. In the 20th Century, however, the wheel of fashion has coasted around to Piero. During the last twelve months three U. S. museums have acquired works of his and last week Manhattan's Schaeffer Galleries exhibited seven altogether, including The Discovery of Honey from the Worcester Museum. There was great talk of Piero's affinities with such meticulous...
...American Association of Physics Teachers last year voted to award their prize for the most notable contribution made to the field of physics by a teacher to Professor Hall...
Fifty-three years old, Clark's formal record sounds very like a geophysicist and very unlike a child story teller: Harvard Ph.D. in 1914 with a record of "A's", Phi Beta Kappa, teacher successively at ten colleges such as Radcliffe, Oberlin, Stanford and Victoria in New Zealand, he feels that children's books are too staid, that his are going to be different...
Deans and Professors of the University also provide an exceedingly touchy problem. There seems to be an opinion current among some of the older members of the Faculty that any distinguished teacher with an interest in religion has the right to hold forth in morning chapel. But too often aptitude for religious expression and profundity of religious thought do not accompany mere interest in the subject. Approaching the same problem from a different point of view, there are faculty members whose chapel talks are brilliant; Professors Mather, Munn and Hopper are in this category. Because of the supposed necessity...