Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Called "Teacher" by her onetime pupils, Sculptor Putnam aimed to enlighten the layman and at the same time to provide a technical guide for students, especially girls, who seldom get a chance at apprenticeship in a sculptor's studio. By a happy omission of professional cant and a handsome use of good drawings and photographs, she puts across pleasantly much that a manual would desiccate...
...good fortune to be a member of Mr. Hutchins' sophomore English during the spring of 1936. I don't believe any English teacher ever lived who could read the Lady of the Lake as he did. Tall, dour in appearance, Mr. Hutchins loves a good game of golf and wields a wicked garden spade, and best of all, has a swell sense of humor...
...until one May day in 1927 when he was flying the North Atlantic. By the time he set foot again in the U. S. three weeks later the public had not stopped to consider what the son of a radical Congressman from Minnesota, and of a high-school chemistry teacher, was probably like. It had made up its mind that Lindbergh was a sort of automaton of modesty, a creature, boyish and noble, of heroic stature...
...years Miss Louise Omwake, a psychology teacher at Centenary Junior College in Hackettstown, N. J., has tried to find out how honest ordinary people are. She devised a test, gave it to 198 girl students at her college. To encourage candor, she let them answer anonymously. Last week, in School and Society, Miss Omwake reported that "honesty appears to correlate with convenience." Guided by circumstances, not by a consistent moral principle, the same students seemed to be sometimes honest, sometimes not. Some findings...
...present course of University policy suggests the possibility of an ironic solution to "the problem of the younger teacher" at Harvard: namely, not to have any younger teachers at all at Harvard, except those who are still seeking their doctorates...