Word: blackboarding
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...problems (TIME, July 5). His aureole of white hair droops in summer's heat, a string upholds his cheap blue denim pants. Says he: "Here we cook with water." Interpreted a colleague: "We perform no miracles." A current item of Einsteiniana titillating the Institute: on one of his blackboards bearing a brain-taxing mathematical equation, the charwoman found the word "Erase." On another blackboard, marked "Do not erase," was blazoned the formula...
Professor Kelley, after drawing a complicated graph on a blackboard: "If you gentlemen don't see the logic of that immediately, I won't be surprised." Murmurs Dan Riordan after class, confronted with an "O, give curve suddenly: O, give me a home on the range...
...suppose we all noticed the Baker blackboard which said. "Mr. Hemingway please see Mrs. Fitzhugh after class," which reminds us of Professor Ebersole's favorite remark. "What did you do today that you didn't do yesterday? . . . Well, do it again...
Before going out on the ice, the team had a skull session with Coach John Chase at the blackboard, during which he showed the proper methods for penetrating the Elis' two, three, and five man defenses as well as meeting their offensive tactics...
Common behavior of teachers: locking a child in a narrow, stuffy clothes closet (I know, I spent many hours there); making him sit under the teacher's desk all day, making a child stand for hours with his feet on the ledge of the blackboard (which holds the chalk) and hold on to an old gas fixture above the blackboard; humiliating, ridiculing, insulting, and degrading a child in front of other children...