Word: teacher
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...same academic roof give a certain flavor to the atmosphere of a university not to be found in a college which stands by itself. The methods of instruction necessarily reflect this atmosphere. But the most distinctive feature of a university is to be found in the calibre of its teachers. These men are themselves learners; they are men who are devoting their lives to acquiring knowledge as well as to imparting it. Whether the instruction be by tutorial conference or by lectures, such teachers have throughout their careers a quality which is not to be found in the teacher...
Finalist Weir, son of a Washington, D. C. violin teacher, is the Bill Tilden of his race. Onetime captain of the College of the City of New York tennis team (a rarity for a Negro ), he has been the most outstanding colored U. S. tennist of the past decade: national champion in 1931-32-33 and-after a three-year retirement while attending medical college-again...
...three years ago a smart, dapper, young-looking man named Cortlandt Jackson Langley called on the dean of Columbia University's Teachers College, ambitious, 46-year-old William Fletcher Russell. He found Dean Russell brooding on the fact that his college, long the nation's No. 1 teacher-training institution, had in businessmen's eyes become "The Big Red University...
...Dorothy G. Mills Howard, a 37-year-old widow, is a junior high-school teacher in East Orange, N. J. She spent seven years in what many an educator would consider a shocking waste of time: sitting in school yards and on curbstones listening to the impromptu songs of rope-skipping kids. Last week, having also collected songs from assistant eavesdroppers from coast to coast, Mrs. Howard was ready to publish her collection. Folk Jingles of American Children.* It is not for squeamish readers. Sample...
Professor Curtis' outburst was applauded by many another science teacher. This week a group at Columbia University's Teachers College, led by venerable Progressive Samuel Ralph Powers, began a campaign to reform U. S. science teaching. They published the first of a series of Rockefeller-financed books intended to make Science more sense-making to students: Life and Environment, by Oberlin College's famed Botanist Paul Bigelow Sears...