Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stipend" as lecture on business economics, shows the evolution of college instruction away from the old fundamentals of Greek and Latin. Apparently a shrewd appreciation of student demands has dictated the appointment. At an institution of learning which more and more "prepares" for a Wall Street career, the classroom of the former President of the National City Bank ought to be thronged...
...Canton Christian College a call for teachers, temporary and permanent, for teaching in China. Instructors must possess a sound collegiate training, influence over boys and girls open to Christian teaching, interest in their social life and athletics, willingness to adapt themselves to new conditions, and energy for 20 hours' classroom work per week. Salary includes all travel and living expenses. Further information may be obtained from the Graduate Secretary, Phillips Brooks House...
...idea of colleges as "hot-beds of Bolshevism" indicates a popular failure to understand the most important function of a university. Above all, the undergraduate must learn to apply himself to his work and to choose between the various ideas and theories which are presented to him in the classroom and outside. It is all very well to protect the preparatory school youth from pernicious doctrines, but if the college student is to be guarded from the danger of standing on his own feet, it is hard to see how he is ever to learn to think for himself...
Studies have now little more than a superficial relationship to one's college life and thoughts. With whom is one to discuss one's calculus or ancient history? There is only the hasty give and take with a fellow-sufferer on the eve of an examination. For classroom only" is labelled in large letters on almost every subject in the course book...
Harvard has already done much to make the classroom have a more direct bearing on life. The tutorial system and the general examinations are an evidence of what the faculty is trying to accomplish in this direction. There are some courses now which do arouse discussion and thought. But much remains to be done. Every effort should be made to have a more personal discussion and relationship between instructor and student. And in lectures the subject must be shown in its bearing on modern-day problems. But the chief burden now lies with the undergraduates themselves. Unless studies become...