Word: blackboarding
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...works set up on Mr. Wilson's presses, Harvard was burgeoning under the amiable dictatorship of President Eliot. By 1872, the revolutionary elective system had so widened the scope and number of course that an unseen difficulty arose. It was no longer possible to chalk up examinations on the blackboard, and nothing but printed exams seemed ractical. So, in that year, Eliot bought himself a press and the services of a second-rate journeyman printer, installing them both in a nook of University Hall's basement. All was well, for a while, and Harvard was launched on a printing career...
...nine will not represent Harvard as a team, but will be part of a northern squad which will participate in a Yankee-Rebel game on the 30th. They will be coached on the blackboard and on the field starting the 22nd and will continue until...
...forum will include long practice sessions with the game's outstanding coaches, both on the field and on the blackboard. Sponsors of the program have promised that all participants in the forum will see action in the intersectional game...
...handful of graduates who take his advanced physics course, he is a lucid, if somewhat rapid lecture. He generally arrives late for class, marching in to scribble bursts of equations on the blackboard with incredible speed. When his right hand gets tired writing he switches to his left. He seldom looks at the class, but addresses the balckboard, writing as be talks. "When I lecture," he says, "I'm talking out loud to myself. I only hope that those who are listening will understand." Apparently this hope is justified for his lucidity often makes extremely complicated lecture material somewhat easier...
...work. He is, perhpas, driven by the excitement of discovery. For although living in a defined, pedantic way, he pursues, in physics, and ephemeral certainty remote from the certitudes of everyday experience. "We're in a provisional state of things now," he says, glancing at a blackboard covered with symbols. "We don't know where we stand...