Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest grades as a general rule, was his comment, go to the student who is the best "ape", to the one who can best imitate his teacher...
...William Holland Wilmer, 66, great Johns Hopkins eye specialist and teacher, has cured many a desperate eye affliction. Grateful patients led by Mrs. Henry Breckinridge four years ago gave the university more than $4,000,000 to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute in his honor and under his direction. This week the building was dedicated, unique in that it is the first of its kind to be associated with both a medical school and a general hospital...
Unique also the William H. Welch Medical Library and new Department of the History of Medicine inaugurated this week at Johns Hopkins. None just like it exists in America. It honors Dr. William Henry Welch, 79, Johns Hopkins grand old teacher of pathology...
...fourth of his fortune (which newsmen were permitted to estimate at $36,000,000) to develop visual-oral instruction in schools. "On the theory," he said, "that one picture is the equivalent of eight words" and that words uttered by college presidents are more potent than those of ordinary teachers, Mr. Fox visualized the time when 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 school children will have school hours reduced from six to three per day by listening to a talkie "educator" instead of to a teacher. Mr. Fox also planned to take talkies of famed surgeons at work...
...plotted desperately to avoid the fusillade of village gossip which would destroy the family if once it began. The piteous tearful prisoner sat in a gloomy room with many strands of wool across her lap to excuse her from rising. Few sat with her except M. Allemand, her piano teacher, whose myopic eyes were sharper than anyone imagined...