Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former group met in a good sized lecture hall at the top of a narrow flight of stairs so that a prompt exit was needed to avoid jostling and a delayed departure. The latter group, smaller and more select, being largely composed of graduate students, met in an ordinary classroom and was treated with somewhat less contempt...
...Daily Illini, campus publication at the University of Illinois, first made the suggestion that the subject be discussed thoroughly in the classroom. The idea was enthusiastically backed by Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, who declared he would favor such a program in his institution...
Last week, while Professor Mather fulminated from the security of his classroom, the first two casualties in the Battle of the Oath occurred at nearby Tufts College (Medford). Both were department chairmen. Rather than sign unconditional oaths, both offered their resignations to Tufts' President John Albert Cousens, himself a strong opponent of the oath. President Cousens and his trustees, fearing for the college's legislative charter, regretfully accepted the resignations...
...shown marked improvement in their scholastic attainments in college. This aspect is most noticeable in language courses, for it is obvious that eight weeks of constant association with German or French speaking young people inevitably provides a more thoroughgoing linguistic training than it is possible to impart in the classroom...
World voyages primarily for students, entailing systematic classroom work as well as sight-seeing, have been conducted for six years by the "Floating University," under the sponsorship of the University Travel Association. A 60-day Summer School Voyage to Europe, during July and August, will also be undertaken this year...