Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate interest in books, rather, insofar as it bears at all upon the subject, it is a tribute to the discriminating taste of the students. For, useful as the Heath series of modern language text books may be, or convenient as the Everyman edition certainly is--in the classroom--no true bibliophile wants his bookshelves lined with such text-books. It is altogether fitting that they should be disposed of at the closing of the course in which they are employed and it is equally reasonable that the man buying such books for use during a few months should...
Wallace B. Donham '98, dean of the Business School, said Saturday that to him the provision of dormitories for men studying business at Harvard is even more important than the securing of ampler classroom facilities, if the students are to get the most out of their two years of graduate work...
...serious though but is sated with surface and artificial emotionalism. The moving picture censorship cannot eradicate the underlying immorality of the silver sheet. It is just the 'movies'. Taking a different view-point, statistics show that children who regularly attend the movies invariably show less ability in their classroom work than those who don't make a regular practice of attending. They exhibit less power of concentration and often become, scatter-brained, due to the constant falsification and sentimentalization of life as it is represented in the movies...
...such a scale?" they asked, We are not far from the stage at which the same question can be appropriately raised within our own precincts. Somewhere or other there must be a point at which the law of diminishing returns begins to make its influence felt in the college classroom." New York Times...
...they have the record of a man's grades in his courses, they do not know all they should in order to recommend him for a job. Such recommendations will be made henceforward on the basis of the rating scale as well as of the man's grades in classroom work...