Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calling of a man who chooses physical education for a career should be regarded as that of an educator in the highest sense of the term, although other methods than those of the classroom are employed to put the idea across. The training a student receives in the graduate school is an integral part of his education, and helps him to formulate high ideals of physical education, without which it cannot occupy a useful place in the life of the modern community...
...spite of the superficial lightness of his indictment that "young men are not going to lay bare their hearts, or give expression to convictions that are very sacred, if women are sitting promiscuously about in the classroom," Mr. Brown's analysis contains a very perceptible measure of truth. Not even the years which a majority of college students have spent in coeducational secondary schools can wholly obliterate for some a feeling of repressive embarrassment in the presence of women as fellow students...
...made operative by the signature of Gov. Fields requires that the Bible shall be read every day in every classroom of every public school in Kentucky...
...April hour examinations. In conversation with newspapermen after the meeting Mr. Campbell argued that public mention of the scholastic difficulties of athletes might spur them on to more serious study. He was aware, he said, of the practice of quieting reports of men being barred from competition because of classroom deficiencies, but he was of the opinion that those whose downfall was due to their own lack of study deserved little sympathy...
...slight pressure and a strong irritant seem to be needed to remove the impediment blocking the route from the undergraduate's mind to his voice. Where classroom discussion is at all possible it should turn less upon matters of fact, mere question and answer, and more upon matters of opinion, a method followed for an example in the Economics department. Since so large a proportion of the undergraduate body is affected by the tutorial system, verbal reports to tutors instead of the frequent written reports might loosen a tongue...