Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Testament, Humanities 124, he is concerned with showing the influence of Biblical "categories of thought." He states that "a university is for understanding. Our concern is not to say whether you should believe or not believe." Buttrick thus provides another example of the split that exists in the University teacher who is a committed man--the instructor who does believe and is convinced that his belief is one which is tremendously meaningful, but who must demur from advocating...
Elected were Dean Monro, of the Class of 1934, Henry W. Bragdon '28, history teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy; Theodore Chase '34, Boston lawyer and Chief Marshal for Commencement; Milton E. Lord '19, Director of the Boston Public Library; and Hughes Mearns, '02, poet and author of "Creative Power...
...Lesson. In Southfield, Mich., High School Teacher Richard Welkenbach keeps discipline by writing on the blackboard, "I'm in a bad mood today," and adding a drawing of a bullwhip...
...problem hit St. Louis' energetic, earnest Dr. Samuel Shepard Jr. two years ago. A Negro, he had risen from abject poverty in Kansas City. Mo., put himself through the University of Michigan by scullery work. He climbed steadily in the St. Louis public-school system, first as teacher and athletic coach, later as principal. To his white colleagues, it was no surprise. "Sam Shepard is willing to work three times harder than anyone else," one of them says. "He stays with a problem like a dog on a bone, until he gets the job done." By 1952 Sam Shepard...
...salary of $12,000 yearly* was made possible last week by Philadelphia's Donner Foundation, for one teacher at each of six blue-chip U.S. private schools: Andover, Exeter, Groton, Hill, Mount Hermon, St. Paul's. Reason: the schools are "among those setting teaching standards." By giving them endowments of $300,000 apiece, the Donner Foundation has a sound scheme: releasing money to raise all teachers' salaries within the lucky six schools, and creating a lever to boost pay across the country...