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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time. Quiet, alert and understanding, he is remembered by Andover boys young and old as an unobtrusive force in their development. He was schooled at Andover himself, going on to Amherst, Yale (where 60% of all Andover boys have gone) and Andover Theological Seminary. Soon after he began teaching at the school in 1897, he coached the baseball team, an office which he kept up for eleven years of his headmastership. The founder of the school set forth that Andover was to teach "the great end and real business of living," but many a boy who remembers both Stearns...
...been raised from the ridiculous to the sublime--or perhaps to the more ridiculous. They are to go on exhibition before critical educational investigators. When Rutgers decided to retain the mentally-wayward twelve, to nurture them in a class all their own, and to engage her leading professors to teach them economics, history, mathematics and geology, she was manifestly actuated by motives ulterior to one of commiseration, for colleges have never put a premium on failure...
...York World: "There have been quite enough of such publicity stunts upon the bench. They do not add to the respect and esteem in which courts are held. . . . Hollywood has nothing to teach a court of justice...
...mechanics of his surroundings. For introduction to intellectual deeps and desires, there is a better path, namely, the instructor himself. To him who makes plain without making easy, makes colorful without making tawdry makes profound without making involved, initiates will gladly turn. Charles Kingsley's "Let not the sourfaced teach morals lest they create a distaste for virtue", applies also to education, and with unmitigated thoroughness...
...geography correct? Look to the Bible, because we cannot teach anything contrary thereto. And yet, when the Bible was written, very little of the world was discovered. Is my astronomy correct? Look to the Bible. And yet, the Bible was written before the invention of the telescope. Is my geology correct? Is my biology correct? Look to the Bible. . . . If perchance the majority somewhere should not be a Christian majority, the Koran or the Book of Mormon or any other might equally well be set up as a standard of truth, knowledge and scientific learning...