Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professional school is as much of a fool as the man who really studies in college. Others will claim with greater seriousness that the real value to be gained from college is the ability to meet and handle other men and that this is best acquired outside the classroom. Still others will trace the emphasis on practical achievement in college to the materialistic basis of American civilization and will contend that college men are best preparing themselves for life by the very means which Mr. Lamont condemns on the part of the private school men. Moreover, so it is claimed...
...month to month." Moreover it is proposed that a "B" standing in this daily work be required. The latter requirement is, perhaps, necessary if Columbia wishes to teach those alone who have a "B desire" to learn. But obviously the plan must include some system of frequent classroom examinations or quisses to determine who does and who does not possess that desire. And furthermore to make the diploma really valuable, it must include some form of general examination at the close of the college sojourn to ascertain whether the student has assimilated and related the facts which he has learned...
...work hard unless his interest is aroused to the necessary pitch. Raising the standard of scholarship is mistaking the real cause, for scholarship is not the sole ingredient of an education. Since to the true student all life is an education, knowledge is to be acquired both inside the classroom and out. When all angles of college life are made an adventure, the four years will become the privilege of doing hard but interesting and valuable labor...
Many successful marriages resulting from classroom proximity...
...Business School is paying its own way in giving classroom instruction. It has been Dean Donham's contention that the School could be and should be run on the same principles as any well organized busines in so far as the direct cost of instruction is concerned. This accounts for the large operating surplus that the School has shown for the last two years...