Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...classroom, lectures; drills and other formations. in general, for habitual wear--for tactical instructors and all cadets--Service Uniform A; (1) Service cap; (2) Service coat (O. D. wool); (3) Service breeches(O. D. wool); (4) Russet leather shoes; (5) Leggings (for tactical instructors, Russet leather or pigskin; for all cadets, including cadet officers, canvas, as issued); (6) White collar (except when under arms, or other duty involving physical exertion, a plain white standing collar will be worn...
...Norton's other remarks, inaccurate because founded on observations that were necessarily hasty and incomplete, are so amusing as to lose much of their sting. We are surprised to learn for example that "the touch of tradition holds sway, appearing at every turn." Tradition preserves the old and uncomfortable classroom benches and plank desks of a former age instead of replacing them with up-to-date equipment." And again: "The rickety old dormitories of a former century are kept unchanged, a tablet on the door of each room telling who has occupied the room for the past century or more...
...classroom work in all courses given by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the first semester of the current year will end today. The mid-year examinations will start tomorrow and continue through February 10. As usual all tests will begin promptly at 9.15 o'clock, lasting for three hours. Following is a complete list of the examinations held tomorrow with the places assigned to each: Anthropology 14 Peabody Mus. Astronomy 1 Harvard 5 Chemistry 6 Sever 5 English 24 Bailey to Oakes Sever 17 Perham to White Sever 18 Fine Arts 3a Robinson 1 fl Fine Arts...
...chose to turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist in all literature. Always he was sane, sound and exacting. Thousands of young Americans have left his classroom bearing the stamp of his taste and the stores of his learning...
...those reported as deficient. in English had taken English A. Naturally the majority of the men reported were undergraduates. After some investigation it was found that many had been reported to the committee on the basis of English papers and themes which had been written hurriedly in the classroom. Whether this fact should be taken into consideration or not is a question. Surely a man who has spent ten years or more in studying English grammar and composition ought to be able to write a page of simple, correct English in twenty minutes. Perhaps with most men it is merely...