Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he did under President Lowell in helping to create the tutorial system. This bold step toward personalizing education, so deeply needed here at Harvard, has given American colleges a standard, an example of which the University may well be proud. With large lecture courses broadening the breach between teacher and student, the tutorial system has done must to restore a better relationship between them. Throughout its infancy, riddled with children's diseases of any new system, the tutorial system has always found Professor Burbank an able pediatrician. The result is that the Department of Economics...
...loafing room for most of the city's hot musicians-gave Billie and others a chance to hear her sing Strange Fruit, and also provided the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People a prime piece of musical propaganda. Unsqueamish, the Commodore had not balked at recording Teacher Allan's grim and gripping lyrics, which begin...
Born in Elizabethgrad in the Russian Ukraine, the son of a Jewish school teacher, Alex Gumberg migrated to the U. S. by himself at 15, became a licensed pharmacist. But he kept in touch with Bolshevik doings and returned to Russia after the Kerensky revolution. There he met, through William Boyce Thompson, Colonel Raymond Robin, head of the American Red Cross mission. In those troubled times Mr. Thompson could get no meat for his wolfhound. Gumberg got it., He became confidential agent for the Red Cross. Through the Red Cross he formed his enduring friendship with Judge Thacher...
...cause of the present neglect of poetry is that too many young ears confused the voice of the poets with the voice of their old English teacher. From England last fortnight an attempted corrective arrived in the U. S. Called The Voice of Poetry, it consists of six phonograph records* containing recordings of 30 English poems, recited by English Actress Edith Evans. A well-chosen anthology, it contains such favorite pieces as Shakespeare's sonnet ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought . . ."), Blake's The Tiger, Lewis Carroll's Father William, John Masefield's Cargoes...
...recent establishment of a fellowship for the study of modern art is a hollow mockery, when the one man (Feild) that can save the department from its past must go." However stimulating a teacher he may be, Professor Feild is obviously not the only man that can improve the department. The fellowship for the study of modern art is not a "hollow mockery" but will certainly help in the consideration of art in relation to the present...