Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Higher than physical comfort the scholar holds adequate time for research. To classroom duties which distract him at every university, Harvard adds tutorial work. Tugged three ways at once, the scholar finds himself spread thin. President Conant would ease the classroom strain...
...scholarship which universities need is that which is born of a profound love of its subject, which is nourished by years of thought in the company of other minds, especially in classroom and conference, which is tested by teaching, and which is matured at last as a book which shall enable men to live with greater charity and nobility. Socrates, the greatest teacher men have known, said that no one knew a thing if he were unable to impart it to others. Countless lecture rooms bear ineloquent testimony to the ignorance of scholars...
...away from college no more valuable acquisition than a method of thought and study. Indeed, it would not be too strong to say that an educational system has succeeded or failed according as it has or has not taught the student this one thing. The methods used in the classroom will probably never be employed in a student's later life; but the freer, more independent methods of tutorial work are the very essence of the way in which study must be continued after college days are over. It is intimate contact with a searching and mature mind which develops...
...affairs at Galileo is but typical of the modern trend in American secondary education. Everywhere the old and wornout standards are being stripped away. The little red schoolhouse has given place to an imposing edifice in brick, equipped with swimming pools, hot lunch counters, and the latest thing in classroom furniture. Tedious studies have been sugared over by electric maps, bolls, lantern shows, and similar kindergarten bric-a-brac. Latin and Greek, classic burden to the juvenile scholar's soul, are dying slowly away. After all, they are dead languages, unpractical, and the children do not care for them...
...some fame as a prankster. They were both tired of going out for sports under the hard-driving supervision of "Monnie" Monahan. However dignified and cultured ''The Duke" (Headmaster George Van Sant-voord) might be, they wanted no more of him. They were fed up with the classroom tyrannies. Besides, Students Wetter and Newberry were not doing well in their studies. With Students Wetter and Newberry roomed another boy: Henry Ford II, son of Edsel. They had told him their plan but he did not want to run away to sea. So they went alone, donning their loudest...