Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Mannes became director of the New York Music School Settlement, oldest of its kind in the U. S. The school at first had only a half-dozen teachers, about 50 students. It now employs 90 teachers, has an enrollment of over 1,000. In 1912 Mannes founded a settlement in Harlem out of gratitude to Negro Teacher Douglas, often gave recitals for Negroes at Hampton Institute, still serves as a trustee for colored Fisk University in Tennessee...
When it became apparent in Moscow that further blandishments would be futile, Ipatieff was expelled from the Academy and denounced as a traitor under articles Nos. 130 and 133 of the new Soviet Constitution. Last week the old scientist was grieved by news that his son, a Moscow chemistry teacher, had ridiculed his reasons for not returning, had "scathingly denounced" him. Dr. Ipatieff looked up the word "scathingly" in a Russian-English dictionary, sighed...
...Holiness Sri Sankarima, 109, who had spent 40 years in remote caves of the Himalayas, learning rejuvenating breathing exercises from a guru (teacher) who claimed to be 300. A swami told him: "The normal age of a man who lives rightly should be 140. . . . There are many Mahatmas living in the high Himalayas of over 200." Says Yeats-Brown: "They have no birth certificates, unfortunately." In seven instances of alleged reincarnation which he discovered, the children gave circumstantial evidence to prove that they remembered a previous life on earth. Most complicated case was that of a five-year...
...called on Gandhi and many another of India's great and near-great. But the high point of his journey was at Trivandrum, where he met one Chidambaram Swami, who became his spiritual teacher, put him to work practising yoga in earnest. The pupil gives all the details of his training - breathing exercises, meditations, calisthenics - and observes that one of the prime necessities to spiritual advancement is a well-functioning bowel...
...First as to outside activities. A teacher has as much right to engage in outside activities, to give advice and to express his views on public questions as any other professional man. When he does, surely he must speak according to his own conscience and convictions...