Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HELEN KELLER'S JOURNAL - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A rebuke to self-pitiers is this diary of 57-year-old Helen Keller in the dark days that followed the death (in 1936) of her lifelong companion and famed teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy. Last fortnight Helen Keller undertook her biggest job, a campaign to raise $2,000,000 for the American Foundation for the Blind...
Warning that Harvard's emphasis on publication might turn the College into "a correspondence school," and urging the creation of an Undergraduate committee to sound out the opinions of the Undergraduates on problems of teaching, the Student Council last night issued its report on Teacher's Advancement, adopted at its last meeting...
...danger of putting any one student in a position of some authority on advancement" which "must in some way be obviated" will be solved, the report says, by making the student representatives "nothing more than collectors and weighers of information. They should never give their own opinion on a teacher...
...University feels that most men whose minds are equal to the tests of research work are capable of becoming competent teachers; the Committee is in substantial agreement with this view. It agrees also that a good teacher cannot necessarily become a good research...
...Voto can have a tremendous personal influence. To Harvard students he can be the symbol of articulation, giving tongue to the art of writing; from the world, his name will attract men of worth. It makes little difference whether the research work of the legendary teacher is lasting; what does make the difference is that the personality of such a man leaves a permanent effect. One of the major responsibilities of the University is toward its students; while research neglects teaching in favor of the advancement of knowledge, teaching, on the contrary, cannot ignore its obvious function. To the student...