Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personality to assume positions of active, helpful leadership in the world. Of equal importance with the formal training afforded by the academic system is the informal training which comes through the social life of the college and the daily contacts of students one with another outside of the classroom. The committee feels very strongly that one of the major defects of Harvard education is the failure of a very large and apparently increasing number of undergraduates to reap the benefits of that larger life of the college which promotes culture as distinct from mere knowledge...
...support of President Lowell and the Law School faculty. President Lowell has always expressed himself in favor of getting the students of the University together, and Professor A. W. Scott said at a dinner of the club recently, that while he was not in favor of doing away with classroom work, he felt that it should be supplemented by such discussion as the Chancery Club offers...
...toward the latter point of view. They are conservative in literature as in all things. But it is precisely this which, in acquiring a true literary taste, is the student's salvation. Coming into contact perforce with the more radical tendencies outside he receives a wholesome restraint in the classroom. He is there taught principally of the past and thus attains a balance. Two forces, external and academic, guide between the two extremes. The result is a sane, tolerant literary appreciation, loving the past but not eschewing the present...
...February there is another meeting of the Association, to which the classroom teachers cannot well go, being tied by their apron strings to the children of their communities. But the school superintendents can get off. In February they pack their bags, hold tryst, keep the Association going at its lively pace, and when they get home again make a speech telling the classroom teachers all about...
About 150,000 classroom teachers and school superintendents constitute the membership of the National Education Association. There is an annual meeting in July, when a goodly portion of them swarm into the biggest hall of the city lucky enough to have been named "convention city" the year before. It is a great vacation junket as well as a grave pedagogical palaver, a great time of speechmaking, report-reading, handshaking and theorizing...