Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polling was taken in great seriousness, as story after story was received about a girl shivering in the cold or rain until a "second" arrived. Many a lad told such hard luck stories as not being able to take piano lessons from a female teacher in his own abode or not being able to receive furniture from a spinster aunt who had driven many miles to bequeath it. A large number of people expressed their willingness to abide by stringent parietal rules if only the various house common rooms be open to females without registration...
There are so many mediocre teachers. There are so many at Harvard. Harvard should have hung on to Benny De Voto if it had to offer him Sever Hall with the Memorial Chapel thrown in. I am aware that he resigned in order to accept the editorship of the Saturday Review of Literature. But if a great university has no resources sufficient to retain a teacher it badly needs, a good many young men are going to regret that fact...
...dullest of them hereby testifies that De Voto was the only man he studied under who ever did succeed in making him think. His students felt for him afterwards the incommunicable affection they reserve for a great--I pick out the adjective, I use it deliberately--a great teacher . . . Well, there are still, no doubt, a number of pleasant gentlemen at Harvard who can chat about Pater's style and in the best English tradition invite their students to tea. I wonder how many composition teachers there are. Paul Driscoll...
...possibly because he himself barely turned 21, had less than a year's experience in business, and may have feared that his youth would count against him when he solicited business from Philadelphia merchants. The father had agreed to join the firm as soon as his duties as teacher in a "female seminary" terminated in the following June. From June 1869 until his death in 1873, N. W. Ayers gave as much time to the business as his poor health permitted. That his contribution was more than nominal is proved by a letterbook of F. W. Ayer...
Professor Taussig characterized Day as an "admirable teacher, administrator, and scholar," and declared that "with his character, attainment, training and personality, Day is an ideal man for the post...