Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fountain-pen until you see the whites of their eyes," is the advice of older students with high records for getting instructors' signatures, and they offer simple strategy. The student desiring a particular signature should dress himself as a member of the maintenance department and enter the teacher's apartment on the heels of the maid. Sooner or later the victim, too, will go into his room to get his mail, and, if the student's disguise is a good one, will not notice anything until the intruder grips him by the elbow and takes one of the three types...
Columbia University's unorthodox New College, an undergraduate teacher-training school, believes that teachers-to-be should taste life's dishes. It sends its students out to run farm and community activities among Carolina hillbillies, to study industry in factories, to travel in Europe. Last week New College's head, sharp-faced Dr. Thomas Alexander, went a step farther. Although most U. S. school officials expect their teachers to stay out of politics and economic conflicts. Dr. Alexander announced his college would award scholarships next term to the two students who had been most active politically...
Your Children and Their Schools is Superintendent Vierling Kersey's introduction to Los Angelenos, whose schools he is this year supervising for the first time. He took a "visual education" teacher out of classes to make the photographs, appointed a junior high-school principal as editor. Ten thousand copies costing $10,800 were distributed free to civic leaders, libraries, universities, clubs, public officials...
Furthermore "grades don't show anything." Many students find that "by studying the teacher they may not need to study anything else...
Kirsopp Lake, professor of History and teacher of the Bible here for 23 ears will give his last lecture on Thursday, December 16, prior to his retirement, it was revealed today...