Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This emphasis on teaching follows the trend established by President Lowell in making Harvard a more personal institution. The roots of this trend lie in the House and tutorial systems; they result in a closer and more complete relation between teacher and pupil. Where once the impersonal lecture system flourished unconditionally, today its effects have been tempered by this element of personality. And this element is rapidly becoming a necessity if Harvard is to continue to turn out its share of leaders...
Since this is so, Harvard needs more--in some cases better--teachers. President Eliot once said that "two kinds of men make good teachers--young men and men who never grow old." Applied to presentday academic ranks, this means more tutors, more permanent appointees with a youthful outlook and personality. And it seems this type of teacher is most frequently found in the "middle group." Since the University chose to adopt a long run attitude towards promotions among the faculty, it would do well to consider the effects of its policy on the modern source of Harvard's greatness...
...Between receipt of an associate professorship and retirement men die. They inherit money. They get tired. Or they are offered more attractive positions elsewhere.... Whenever under the new policy an intrinsically desirable teacher is turned out of Harvard and thereafter (within "the next five or ten years") a permanent appointee in his Department ceases to teach prior to retirement, the University will have been unnecessarily damaged.... But the present policy results in automatic dismissal of actual teachers of known value in favor of hypothetical teachers of unknowable value. Surely it is possible to frame a policy less blind and accidental...
...Institute announced today a series of public lectures, of which Mr. Hodge's is the first. The lectures are scheduled as follows: Nov. 14, "China's Back Door," by Schuyler Cammann, for several years a teacher in China; Nov. 28, "Aerial Photographic Mapping," by Lieutenant Colonel James W. Bagley; Dec. 12, "Travels in Northwestern Canada," by P. G. Downes; and Dec. 19, "Biological Observations in the Dutch East Indies," by Charles T. Brues, professor of Entomology...
They found still on the campus "the Colonel" (Horace M. Poynter), oldtime Latin teacher, and "Georgie" (George Walker Hinman), a Greek and Latin tutor who once bit a pencil in two when a pupil failed to conjugate amare. Missing was "Zeus" (Allen Rogers Brenner), famed old Greek teacher, many another familiar face. The old boys found other changes. In ten years a revolution had taken place...