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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's Journal, with his usual salutary skepticism, editorialized: "With little if any apparent warrant, it is again announced, for at least the tenth time in five years, that the causative organism of influenza has been discovered and that it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Influenza Germ Found? | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

At most U. S. colleges there exist two kinds of faculty members: the teaching professors and the research professors. Dear to the heart of the undergraduate is many a teaching professor. Him they afterward remember for what little light and learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher Snubbed | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Associate Professor Robert Dudley French of the English department is a teaching professor as well as a scholar. Graduated from Yale in 1910, he returned to teach in 1915. In 1920 he took over a Chaucer course, brushed up its fustiness, livened it, taught it well, increasing the enrolment from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher Snubbed | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

If he was to get his professorship, Mr. French felt that he must decline the school's offer. He went to the English department, forthrightly asked if he was to receive the position. As forthrightly the English board met, voted unfavorably four to three. Their fancy fell upon Assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher Snubbed | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

With tumult and with shouting Pedagog French's friends and disciples, old and new, came to his aid. The Corporation solemnly convened, voted to create an extra professorship for him, submitted the proposal to the English board. Again and astoundingly came the negative vote, four to three. President James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher Snubbed | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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