Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strangest of the many strange conditions at Harvard is the slack attitude of the ordinary undergraduate toward cribbing in outside written work. Public sentiment condemns cheating in examinations or in the classroom; it does not condemn the copying of reports, theses etc. Men are continually doing such copying to a greater or less degree, and they escape (just as in a noted case of the kind within the last year or two) not only punishment by the authorities, but all censure from friends who would be quick to frown upon cheating in other forms. Public opinion alone can deal with...
...itself justly on the perfect freedom of the individual enjoyed by everyone within its walls, whether students or members of the Faculty. This spirit of individualism is very much in evidence in every part of the University, whether in the Yard, the dormitories, or the Harvard Union. In every classroom one becomes immediately connections of an atmosphere of strong, independent thought, of a critical, analytical spirit of challenge, of an almost self-assertive pride of unshackled, fearless, intellectual freedom. The effect of this atmosphere is of course most stimulating. Many a man owes his intellectual rebirth to this very spirit...
...distinct times during one lecture the other day. We supposed at once that it must have been the result of close confinement in an ill-ventilated room; and, though we have found out since that such was not the case, the incident, nevertheless, served to recall the matter of classroom ventilation. We may as well be specific, too, for there have been at least two strenuous complaints on that subject within the last few days...
...recent communication to the Alumni Bulletin by a graduate took Harvard instructors to task in rather vigorous terms for their faulty lecturing technique and enunciation in the classroom. The correspondent objects to the haltings and stammerings of some teachers in their discussions; but pays his respects in particular to the annoying habit of filling in these gaps "with a meaningless 'uh'." The complainant is doubtless right to a great degree. There are always some men whose busy minds team with so many ideas at once, that expression must halt and waver while the thoughts struggling for expression fight...
There are two reasons why every man should be present who can arrange it. In the first place, we have only too few opportunities to hear members of the Faculty outside of the classroom, and consequently often have a very inadequate notion of their personalities, and their abilities to be interesting apart from their regular work. And in the second place, the topic and the special work which Professor Perry has done in connection with Lincoln's life ought to bring out a good audience. Lincoln is one of those men whose lives loom larger as the perspective forms about...