Word: pedagogical
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When a young Indiana pedagog named Walter Albert Jessup went to Columbia a quarter-century ago to work for his doctorate he found heading the department of educational sociology a man much like himself and only two years his senior. Of this man. Henry Suzzallo, he made a life-long friend. Four years after Professor Suzzallo approved Walter Jessup's dissertation Social Factors Affecting Special Supervision in the Public Schools in the United States, and gave him his Ph. D., both teacher and pupil were called to head State universities-Suzzallo to Washington, Jessup to Iowa. Both men proved...
...years ago Butler University at Indianapolis acquired a new president, Dr. Walter Scott Athearn, a stocky, heavy-jowled pedagog who had written a book a year for 26 years and been dean of Boston University's School of Religious Education and Social Service. Dr. Athearn found Butler badly off financially and because of professionalism in football no longer a member of the North Central Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools. He secured for it an anonymous gift of $2,000,000, soon got it reinstated in the Association. Last week Dr. Athearn was ousted from his job by Butler...
There are 102 Roman Catholic bishops in the U. S., most of them churchmen who reached the apostolic succession after lengthy, inconspicuous service. Last week Rome made a bishop of a man of only 46 because it approved his work as pedagog during the past decade. In Washington some 2,000 people crowded into the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of Catholic University of America, to see the consecration of its rector, Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan, as Titular Bishop of Modra...
...takes a benignant interest in schools, got his sister Margaret on the Board of Superintendents. His espousal of Dr. Colligan did not immediately suit Manhattan editors, who would have preferred a college-trained executive with no odor of Tammany. But they accepted Dr. Colligan as a pleasant, straightforward, progressive pedagog who may, after all, be just the sort of president for a place like Hunter...
Principal Sidwell is a robust, alert pedagog at 74. He putters at his two farms in Maryland, admires the domestic allotment plan of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace who has a boy and girl in the school. Some other Friends' parents: Newton D. Baker, Herbert Hoover, President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland. Representative Samuel Billingsley Hill of Washington. Mr. Justice George Sutherland has a grandson at Friends'. Charles Augustus Lindbergh used to play in the gravel yard of the schoolhouse on I Street and Archibald Roosevelt, Princess Chichibu of Japan and Minister to China Nelson Trusler...