Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States, based upon actual observation, that after all these idling British university men were somehow better educated, more developed in their intellectual capacities, stronger on their own feet in the use of what they knew, than were our American students constantly confined to the hothouse of the classroom...
...enough to find out that the phenomenon of two and two equaling four is dull dumplings to young minds. You have to bring two and two to life somehow if you want to hear four discussed at recess. . . . Last fortnight Teacher Gaylord invited some fathers and mothers to her classroom, in the morning. In front seats, grinning, sat a picked team of 15, her best mathematicians from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Teacher Gaylord singled out a father with more apparent bounce than the rest and had him act as captain of another team?composed entirely of fathers...
...should go back to his fraternity room, read it and think about it, he would be judged a queer fellow. And probably he would be. Scholarship today seems to be an affair for the shut-ins and queer fellows." He described the fraternity type of student: "Facile in the classroom and ready with answers in emergencies . . . superficial . . . the fellow who comes to class with a hangover and gets by, nevertheless. . . . Fraternity men, with their social advantages and intellectual capability, should form the nucleus of the group of creative personalities...
...better than the average Chinese into the bargain. I should like very much to continue; but the tides of prejudice are hard to stem, and I may be forced to give up the experiment at the close of the present school year in order to preserve peace in the classroom. My own interest in your excellent work continues with my subscription...
...Games for all and the extension of curriculum ideals to athletics are the keynotes of the report. All Brown men, alumni and undergraduates alike, want a more substantial foundation for outdoor sports, the sports which help to educate, and only those. They believe that all education whether in the classroom or on the athletic field should be dominated by "one great ideal, subjected to the same control, held to the same financial publicity and guided by the same theory of the sound mind in the sound body...