Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Entomologist Bogue went to San Bernardino County Hospital to teach after the War, he learned that hordes of the ladybirds were being rounded up in the mountains and brought down to police vegetable gardens in the valleys, but that none were shipped out of California because they were so perishable. He began to experiment. Three years ago he discovered that in a temperature of 42° and a constant and definite humidity, the bugs would live indefinitely without feeding, could be shipped long distances. But even when warmed up the ladybird beetle is too temperamental to breed in captivity...
...life: Country school teacher. Career: Son of impoverished log cabin dwellers, he was four when his father died. At twelve he was sent to live with an elder sister, did farm work summers, got a little schooling winters. Aged 19, he passed an examination, received a license to teach. With his earnings he sent himself to Ohio Northern University at Ada. On the day in 1889 that Ohio Northern graduated him, aged 27, that Methodist stronghold also appointed him professor of history. Equipped with a law degree, he became president of Antioch College, vocational school at Yellow Springs, Ohio...
...returned to the Naval Academy to teach chemistry and physics. He also became head football coach, and the brains and aggressiveness which marked him as a fast, rangy end helped "sink" the Army again. 6-0. For his kindness to luckless midshipmen about to be "bilged." the class of 1909 dedicated its year book to him. His consideration was only natural, since Joseph Reeves can think of no more unhappy fate than not being in the Navy...
Three Chicago women, hired for their heft, last week hopped on scales to show what a week's competitive dieting had done for them. In blatant co-operation to teach rumpy Chicagoans how to reduce were Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen. president of Chicago's Board of Health. Dr. William I. Fishbein, able young brother of the American Medical Association's Dr. Morris Fishbein. and William Randolph Hearst. Mr. Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, which hired the women because their chunky thighs and beefy arms would photograph well, instigated and made great ado over bananas...
...recent editorial, the Harvard CRIMSON quotes President Conant as saying that "there ought to be no separation of the faculty into those who teach and those who carry on creative work." While most educators recognize the value of research and the value of splendid teaching, there are many who overlook the point which President Conant, since assuming the presidency of Harvard, has so effectively maintained: that teaching and research are inextricably connected. While there are doubtless some few men who make inspiring teachers, and are yet temperamentally unfitted to carry the burden of investigation and creative study, such cases...