Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Golden Gate Bridge fallen in neglected ruins, San Francisco's skyscrapers abandoned, the city housed in vast, uniform, flat-topped buildings; an "Orient Express" plane arriving at an airport on top of a slender, mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket-ship takes off below; a teacher & class flying around under their own power on "magnetic refractor shoes." In the accompanying text a German professor is credited with having removed, by a magical serum, "all dishonesty, crime and conflict from the human brain...
...During the Depression, many a school board slashed salaries which teachers believed were guaranteed by contract. The West New York, N. J. Board of Education in 1933 ordered reductions ranging from 10% to 15%. Principal J. E. Dransfield of Hudson Heights Grammar School has since been conducting a "friendly" legal campaign for 95 of his fellow West New York teachers to determine whether their contracts were binding under the State's Tenure Law of 1909. The cuts were last week finally upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled: "The Act of 1909 . . . was but a regulation...
Stress on research rather than teaching ability in the advancement of university professors was attacked last night by Roswell G. Ham, president-elect of Mount Holyoke College at the Teacher's Association meeting in the Hotel Commander...
Criticizing the "wishful thinking" of a system which restricts itself entirely to this method, Professor Ham described the present University situation for a teacher as a stream from which all the nuggets of research had been washed". But, he affirmed, "there's still gold in them thar hills...
...third time in as many years the Legislative Committee on Education yesterday reported against the Teacher's Oath Law, this time favoring repeal by a vote of nine to five. This decision represents an advance over last year's count, where repeal triumphed by a single vote, and the likeli-hood of the House following the Committee's lead is far greater than before...