Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made many of the concentrators agree that the most pleasant way to cover the field was through tutorial guidance, but such men declared that a coordination tutor, not a laissez-faire man, was essential for this mode of study. Of these tutors Munn was recommended as a great individual teacher, and Steel was declared one of the best tutors in the field. Chandled and Sedgwick are good, but they have to be drawn out; Worcester is also good, but perhaps too bright. Morison and Rackcliffe were well recommended...
...behind Glyndebourne is Capt. John Christie, wealthy ex-science teacher at England's swagger Eton College, and present owner of Glyndebourne Manor. A lifetime lover and patron of music, a constant attender at the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, Captain Christie long had an ambition to establish an operatic festival of similar quality in England. In 1933 at Copenhagen he unfolded his scheme to round-faced Conductor Fritz Busch, German political exile and famed former conductor of the Dresden Opera. Enthusiastic Maestro Busch called in the help of his expatriated countryman, Stage Director Carl Ebert. With Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing...
...Bryn Mawr. One of the first two graduate students who studied with him was James B. Conant '14, who also worked under him during the war. As a scientist, he was outstanding--his work in unsaturated organic compounds is internationally known and respected--but it was as a teacher and a man that the unique quality of his personality made itself most felt...
...King," as Kohler was known to two generations of students, was above all a stimulating and sympathetic teacher--sympathetic especially to the needs and problems of the beginner. Kohler-trained chemists throughout the country will carry on the teaching tradition which he established at Harvard...
...with the great spirit and traditions of the past." But it is hard to agree completely that new form cannot be found for new thoughts, and that such expression can not also be poetry. Be that as it may, however, Mr. Hillyer as a poet and a teacher has written a valuable book for anyone interested in verse...