Word: pedagogical
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...used to run a series of cartoons called "The Skeptics Society" which showed earnest-looking savants solemnly testing and rejecting such saws as "A watched pot never boils" and " 'Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good." Last week, after four years of research, a Columbia University pedagog announced that he could disprove nearly all of such adages, superstitions and unfounded beliefs. He is Dr. Otis William Caldwell, 63, director of the Institute of School Experimentation at Teachers College, and he has checked up on superstition with many a questionnaire, many a column of figures. He calculates that...
...wedded are the two that separation of them defies the greatest feats of imagination. So it is with German B. Without Dr. Herrick the tremendous scope and perfect efficiency of the course is inconceivable; with him it remains an eighth wonder. Dr. Herrick is a born pedagog, inspiring, able to induce a desire for knowledge and to get results. He has a wealth of anecdotal and related information which makes the driest, application of Grimm's law or the third rule for the use of the subjunctive less grim, and the dullest passage of Immensee romantic and entrancing; still...
Another Columbia pedagog, Rexford Guy Tugwell, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture...
Topaze (RKO). Professor Auguste Topaze (John Barrymore) at the beginning of this picture, is a shabby and bedazzled pedagog, soberly extolling to the urchins in his classroom the virtues of a copy book philosophy. At the end of the picture he is a gay boulevardier. dressed in a depraved cutaway and accompanied by a mistress (Myrna Loy) whom he has stolen from a baron. The transformation starts when Topaze loses his job for punishing the baron's stupid son. It is completed when the baron (Reginald Mason) has made Topaze head of a fraudulent mineral water company...
...resourceful pedagog gets about a good bit. That thought might have occurred, 14 years ago, to a tall, youngish psychology professor whose grey eyes looked out from droopy eyelids at the leisurely charm of the University of North Carolina. Harry Woodburn Chase had been born in 1883 into a family in Groveland, Mass, which was said to have moved only five miles in 300 years. At Dartmouth he had taken his A.B.; at Clark University in Worcester (Mass.) his doctorate. Married to a Midwesterner, he went to North Carolina's Chapel Hill...