Word: instructorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roswell Magill's regular occupation is teaching. After a year's apprenticeship in a Chicago law firm, he took on an instructorship at the University of Chicago, and after a brief interlude as a Government revenue attorney moved to Columbia in 1924. A pioneer investigator of Federal taxation and the author of several standard textbooks, he is a recognized authority on how to avoid taxes as well as how to levy them. Yet with all Roswell Magill's professorial background Congressmen like and trust him. Once when he appeared before a committee the Congressmen were so impressed...
...Like Dr. Kitson, President Engelhardt moved East from the University of Minnesota. Removal to New England is by way of being a homecoming for him. He was born at Naugatuck, Conn., 52 years ago, studied at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, at Yale, Harvard and Columbia. Leaving an instructorship at Yale in 1909, he acquired a thorough acquaintanceship with public schools by teaching in them and administering them in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois...
...went East to study philosophy at Johns Hopkins and Yale, take his Ph. D. He spent the rest of his life looking for a fitting academic rut. For a time he could find no job at all, disgusted his family by loafing at home. Finally he was offered an instructorship at the new Rockefeller-endowed University of Chicago. He also taught at Stanford University, the University of Missouri, Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Except on a few unusual students Veblen made little impression in his lectures, in which he often seemed to be asleep, usually sat with...
...when it was over le decided to pick up some ready money by teaching history for a while in Grove City high school. He liked teaching. In a couple of years he had saved enough to go to Princeton for a master's degree. That got him an instructorship in economics at Purdue, which led on to a Ph. D. in political science at University of Pennsylvania. Since then, between public jobs, he has sandwiched in stretches of caching politics at Western Reserve, Pennsylvania, Swarthmore, New York University and finally, in 1925, at Princeton where he stayed...
...Vleck, the well-known physicist, graduated from Wisconsin in 1920, and took his Masters' and Doctor's degrees here. After serving an instructorship here, he taught at the University of Minnesota, Leland Stanford, and finally at Wisconsin. He has done research work on the quantum theory and is the author of many scientific pamphlets. His duties next year will be divided between mathematics, quantum mathematics, and his research work...