Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come more specifically to a treatment of the Harvard Law School, however, we find a curious and astounding mixture of races and colors that defies amalgamation. The only unifying influence is the study of Law; outside of the classroom and the library there is no common interest to bind the students together. Nearly all colleges place their stamp upon their graduates; the men come here already hardened to the mould, and there is no change in them through the three-year course except that wrought by nature...
...much for the machinery of our classroom work. With only two hours of the day accounted for, say from eleven to one o'clock, what do we do with the rest of our time? The morning may profitably be spent in studying; the afternoon the same, and the evening likewise. If a means of living without sleep could be invented, we should stand a better chance of passing the examinations, which come only in June and are on the whole year's work. Needless to say, we do sleep, and we do not spend every hour...
Industrial ethics, race ethics, sex ethics, the ethics of athletic contests and of the classroom, are part of our subject matter...
...their instructors and go to them for advice on many things besides studies. . . . Professors, after all, are human beings, whose capacities for friendship are not entirely destroyed by the exacting nature of their manifold duties, and the student who goes through college without knowing some of them outside the classroom is, I am sure, exceptional...
...author has taken verbal photographs of the professors of law in their unguarded moments. Legal rigamarole and trite phrases of the classroom have been woven into a lifelike depiction of the Law School in grotesque...