Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that account be well cultivated. The art of self-defence, while it gives a person a happy confidence as an athlete, does not destroy the instincts of the gentleman, but engenders on the contrary equanimity of temper. Your paper fears also that the enjoyment of a special teacher in sparring would, if the conduct of the faculty were at all consistent, necessitate a special master of fencing and dancing. Here you commit a mistake; sparring is a mode of defence which has a national character, as fencing has in Germany, and in the immediate vicinity of the college...
...however, confined yourselves to an opposition against the principle involved, there would be little blame attached to your editorial. As if, however, this were not enough, you end with a personal tirade against Mr. Ferris himself. You must not look for the highest criterion of education in a sparring teacher. Yet this the pupils of Mr. Ferris' class can say for him, that in his classes he has always acted in a fair and gentlemanly manner...
...Again we are at work in the adored gymnasium, industriously tugging away at the 'pound and a quarter' chest-weights, and swinging 'fourteen ounce' Indian clubs with an absorbing devotion, worthy of so great a cause. All are delighted with our new teacher, and the hour for exercise is hailed with joy. Everyone is exhibiting an interest in her neighbor's muscle, and the girl who can vault is looked upon with wonder and amazement by the majority of the new girls, although by this time they are quite 'old' and worldly-wise...
School of Dancing, Deportment, Etiquette, &c. Sig. L. Papanti, (nephew of the well known teacher of Dancing, Mr. Lorenzo Papanti of Boston) takes pleasure in announcing to the students of Harvard University that he will open a class in Dancing on Monday evening, Dec. 14, at 7.30 at Lyceum Hall. He will give a thorough instruction in steps, and all the most fashionable dances, including the new Valse-Mazourka, Cottilion, &c. The courses will consist of 16 lessons. Terms $14.00 for the course. Two evenings in the course will be devoted to practising all the dances with music...
School of Dancing, Deportment, Etiquette, &c. Sig. L. Papanti, (nephew of the well known teacher of Dancing, Mr. Lorenzo Papanti of Boston) takes pleasure in announcing to the students of Harvard University that he will open a class in Dancing on Monday evening, Dec. 14, at 7.30 at Lyceum Hall. He will give a thorough instruction in steps, and all the most fashionable dances, including the new Valse-Mazourka, Cottilion, &c. The courses will consist of 16 lessons. Terms $14.00 for the course. Two evenings in the course will be devoted to practising all the dances with music...