Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paula Echols, 15, was in an English class with 20 other students when she saw the building shake and the roof fall in. Then Paula saw her teacher's leg protruding from a rumbling pile of brick and mortar. Pinned beneath her desk, Paula heard the boy across the aisle screaming for help. Another boy dragged her out through the window-frame...
...manual arts shop in the basement, John Nelson, 17, was working on a lathe. His teacher was standing about five feet away. There were 15 other boys in the room. Then a big mass of sand and what looked like a ball of fire tumbled in. Something hit John Nelson's leg and slit the front of his pants. It felt "like a charley horse you get playing football...
...question of how to educate our teachers must necessarily be preceded by deciding what constitutes education. In helping to solve this problem a university provides its greatest service, and it is with this in view that Dean Holmes has embarked upon a campaign of graduate school cooperation at Harvard. The relatively new degree, Master of Arts in Teaching, combines the two essentials of a good teacher -- thorough knowledge of the subject he intends to teach, and an understanding of the principles of education. Another angle of cooperation is planned for supervisors and school officials by sending students in the School...
...November 1934, Mrs. Catharine Ulrich Kabatt was told to take a two-year leave from her duties as an Elmira, N. Y., high-school mathematics teacher because she was expecting a baby. Two months after her blue-eyed son was born, she unsuccessfully demanded to be put back to work. Although she is now teaching in a grade school, her lawyer husband Anthony has carried through the New York courts a suit for the pay she would have earned during her compulsory leave. Last week he carried it for the second time to the U. S. Supreme Court, which again...
...current battle over the Teacher's oath recently, emphasizes Dean Holmes' warning in his last report; "American universities face a dangerous period of intolerance directed against teachers, schools, and universities." When President Conant appeared last week before the legislature, he spoke as President of Harvard and rightly so. The University was being directly attacked and the duty of defence naturally rested upon his shoulders...