Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow and Saturday the College Art Association of America will hold its twelfth annual meeting. The Association will meet tomorrow in Classroom A of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts at 8 o'clock in the morning and the following morning at 10 o'clock and evening at 8 o'clock, the members will assemble in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge. All three meetings will be open to members of the University. the complete programs for the meetings follow: Tomorrow Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at 8 P. M. Address of Welcome, Director Fairbanks, Museum...
...real studying, thinking, writing and other creative work. A program such as this is a violation of the commonest physiological principles and could hardly be more irrational. Setting all the equipment of the University before the student and then requiring him to spend his morning plodding from classroom to classroom is like taking him to the ocean for a swim and allowing him only to wade in the water...
From the undergraduate point of view, it would seem superficially that the President's remarks had overlooked the broader college influences, outside of the classroom, which he himself would be quick to acknowledge as of almost equal importance, in the aggregate, with instruction itself. Perhaps we are wrong in thinking that the younger men, in respect to physique and character, are already at a disadvantage, and find themselves unable to reap a full harvest in the fields of "interests and activities." It is true that the present century is far slower in developing its youths than the past have been...
...college undergraduate at times begins faintly to suspect that while a professor must be a professor in the classroom he may be a man outside. This secret is whispered about like a bit of scandal and heard sceptically by many. One of the few chances the professor gets to "come out" is the occasion of the University teas. Last year it is reported that one Freshman strayed into one of these parties and promptly fied when he discovered the "ogres of the class-room" assembled. Three graduate students from abroad attended and are said to have enjoyed themselves, while...
...after all of what avail are good grammars and capable instructors if the students have made up their minds before they enter the classroom that they do not like the course, and are resolved not to do the work required, but to take a chance on "getting by"? It would seem that the difficulty lies not with the department but with the supposedly eager seekers for learning who can not force themselves to work in a course they are obliged to take...