Word: blackboarding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which springs from methods more than satisfactory. "A small group will perhaps be carried away by their new freedom, but it is the firm belief of the faculty that the great majority will use their privileges wisely and with great profit to themselves." After midyears Harvard will revert to blackboard and lecturer. May 5 a second period, preparatory to final examinations will be dedicated to reading books...
...fear the incessancy of this schoolteacher's routine. She would quite often feel a wave of hatred for her pupils, followed by a sentimental shame which made her look at them with a foolish smile. This amused the children. They could scarcely help writing smutty words on the blackboard or making noises to scare Miss Byrne. The other teachers began to notice that she seemed a little gruff when they met her on the stairs. Once she rated 35 out of a class of 40 "deficient in lessons," 25 "unsatisfactory in conduct," 22 "in effort...
...lady gained everyone's attention, in another two seconds, however, by whisking an automatic pistol from her magazine and firing two peremptory shots at Judge Johnson. The courtroom banged with noise. Splinters flew from the woodwork and a blackboard behind Judge Johnson, whose reflexes made him huddle down into his chair so suddenly that the next moment he tumbled down the bench step, though as yet unhurt...
...California, the Pacific Coast Conference worked for the glory of Far West. "Pop" Warner called his Leland Stanford hopefuls together around a blackboard to instill the rudiments of theoretical strategy. Scouts scattered to spy upon opposing teams. The Pacific Conference recognizes scouting, favors it; arguing that the Eastern attitude is silly since loyal graduates will scout opponents surreptitiously despite rules...
After Harvard and Heidelberg he taught in Iowa, never marking attendance, always forgetting the drab scene and his lecture subjects to stray into ancient Greece. But one day his blackboard bore a note: "No class today. I've gone to war." He had met Rudyard Kipling at sea. Twenty years later he had renounced war, rebuked Kipling...