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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incapable of learning the simple mechanics of drawing, so they splash their canvases with every color of the spectrum and call it inspiration." The many, many people who subscribe to the sanctity of tradition-in-Art have rented a studio for von Marr so that he may continue to teach them. The six professors, as one man, declared that "it makes no difference whether an artist is 65 or 25. A young man may express a musty spirit in his work, and the older man one that breathes the ardor of youth." Von Marr reversed the usual order of things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Sick in the Head | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...WONDERFUL VISIT?H. G. Wells and St. John Ervine, two very thoughtful gentlemen, teach an angel the futility of pearls before swine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jun. 30, 1924 | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

Yesterday's announcement that six members of the Senior class had been appointed to teach at Yale-in-China comes as one of many reminders that Yale is not bounded by the four walls of the Campus. Although this significant university experiment across the Pacific may attract only the casual attention of most undergraduates, Chief Justice Taft recently added his word of praise by calling it a great investment in international good-will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/10/1924 | See Source »

...conclusion, it is clear that the call for teachers is great, and that our universities must supply them. Furthermore, teaching is a positive "calling" and not a negative recourse, or a trade. The kind of men that go into it will determine what it is to become and what its practical or its less tangible rewards are to be. Harvard has done much, in the character of the teachers that she has sent out, to raise the calling to a high level. Undergraduates, with full realization of the nature of the job, would do well to consider the need...

Author: By Roswell P. Angier ., | Title: TEACHERS NEED URGE OF PUBLIC SERVICE | 6/6/1924 | See Source »

Granted the wish, how should a youth decide whether he is fitted for teaching? By impersonal self-analysis, buttressed by frank talks with discerning friends and,-specially, with those teachers with whom he feels in real rapport. He must, of course, like the subjects that he wishes to teach; he must wish to impart his knowledge; he must have real sympathy with boys (a fairly safe augury of an eventual understanding of them); he must not be over-impatient of the apparently indifferent, for many of these are but asleep, and in such lies the real challenge to his ingenuity...

Author: By Roswell P. Angier ., | Title: TEACHERS NEED URGE OF PUBLIC SERVICE | 6/6/1924 | See Source »

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