Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Breisach. a little town of 500 inhabitants located about 18 km. from Freiburg. Ah! the charm of that little town. How rudely it was disturbed during the Fruehschoppen -the student drinking bouts which lasted from early morn till evening. Like many college students, proud of their ability in classroom foreign languages, a few were anxious to show their knowledge of English in conversing with me: the result was that I spent the day guzzling with them, and cemented our friendship with liquid mortar. And very pleased I was to receive an invitation to attend a secret Mensuren on the coming...
...College to small units where greater intimacy may effect closer friendships. While House Plans do help to restore "these infinitely precious things," still it must not be overlooked that the basis of close friendships consists not in people occupying the same hotel, but in their doing things together. The classroom and the athletic field will always to be the great basis of friendships, regardless of whether it is the Yale of 1883, or the Harvard...
...theses are required during the year. Corneille, Racine, and Moliere consume the greatest amount or time both inside and outside the classroom, but the reading of their plays is well worth while. Most of the other writers of less fame are covered in more or less sketchy fashion which does not interest the student to any considerable extent in either the lecture or the subject. Too many of the facts brought out, for facts are regrettably the mainstay of the talks, are ones which the hearers have usually heard once before. Perhaps a more satisfactory system would be that used...
...addition to these practical lessons, the following classroom subjects are taught: mathematics, physics, political economy, current politics, history of class struggle, Russian grammar, English, chemistry, anatomy, hygiene and sanitation, history of the theater and circus, literature and military training...
...only the subjects. Each professor seems suddenly to have only one very shabby suit of clothes. Each enters the classroom with the same irritating shamble and toils through the day's matter in much the same monotonous drone. There is roast beef in all the Houses for breakfast and for lunch and for dinner, and for a demitasse. There is a very poor movie in all the theatres in town; there is very poor rhum in every bottle in Cambridge; there is a most strident and complaining voice through every fire door in the college. There is the same bland...