Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale has made definite plans for organizing religious work under the system of optional attendance at chapel next year. It has been voted to suspend all classroom exercises from 10.30 to 11 o'clock each morning except Saturday so that a service may be held...
...time reported as spent by the students in preparing classroom work ranged from two to fifty hours a week, with an average of 20.7 hours. The report gave an unexpected result when it disclosed that the students who spent the least time on their studies attained the highest standing. Figures revealed that the freshmen spend the most time on their lessons and that every succeeding class spends correspondingly less, with the seniors studying the least...
...wretched voice of an unintelligent woman wined through a third-grade classroom in Kansas, Mo., one morning last week...
...miserable woman's head swam. In her helplessness she brought a broomstick into the classroom, which she sat gripping in her hand like an angry witch. Quivering with impotent fury, she looked at her wrist watch...
Even student concern with the curriculum, the late development in the student movement, is largely a following of academic leadership. President Aydelotte denounces the classroom, Professor Meiklejohn shouts, "Away with all lectures." President Frank says that the college is sick and proposes an isolation ward where it can be taken apart and examined and experimented on; Secretary Flexner wants to abolish the college altogether at university centres. Profesor Johnston Ross denounces compulsory chapel. Professor William B. Otis denounces compulsory drills. Professor J. E. Kirpatrick would abolish the college Presidency. But it students propose any reforms in these fields, we call...