Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This work has been so successful that it has been, recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, and Kinogram has taken cinema pictures of classroom work in aeronautics at this school and displayed them all over the country. Many schools are beginning to follow this lead in every state...
...series of recent experiments," he said, "33 tests of cheating behavior were devised and applied to children from nine to 14 years of age. These tests were conducted largely in the classroom but some of them pertained to the action of children at parties and in the home. To insure accurate results the experiments were necessarily made in a disguised manner...
Modern poetry will be taken out of the Harvard classroom and put into the bookshelf and the informal talk by the gift of $42,000 made to the President and Fellows of Harvard College by Morris Gray, '77. Three gifts, totaling that amount, were made, with the object that the income should be applied to the purchase of books of current modern poetry, and books upon the subject, and for talks by poets and critics...
...seem but slight; its significance lies in its marked agreement with a policy already casting its shadow over American college life. Whether it be the banning of automobiles for university students, the appointment of athletic captains and managers by coaches, the censoring of the student press, or just the classroom training of extra-curricular leaders, the effect is the same, a blow at self-reliance...
...courses that fill this need are necessary tedious. The classics are tasted but any attention to literary values must wait on the stumbling paraphrases of the classroom. Better known than these slightly musty process are the writers increasingly read in this country men like Proust and Hampton and Thomas Mann. With the expenditure of some labor elementary knowledge does not preclude the enjoyment of these writers. And well disciplined intelligent individual study in line with all modern tendencies promises more of permanence and adhered to yields as much at the moment as grammatical boredom...