Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incompetent Groucho Marx hires Chico and Harpo to play football for Huxley, gives them each a contract. When Groucho wants a seal to make the contracts official. Harpo produces a live one. Presently, all three go to a classroom where Groucho gives a lecture on geography and anatomy. Says he: "The Lord Alps those that Alps themselves." Harpo and Chico stop clawing at pretty female classmates long enough to blow spitballs at Groucho. Groucho dismisses the class, blows spitballs back...
Aboard the Niobe only the enlisted crew saw either the plane or the Therese Russ. The cadets, 50 boys of good German families chosen by competitive examination from nearly 2,000 candidates, were sitting at forms in a cramped 'tween-decks classroom studying the Theory of Navigation. Scratching their heads they puzzled problems of Greenwich Mean Time...
...speedboats from Kiel and the cruisers Koeln and Koenigsberg. There was little they could do. Only 40 men of the Niobe's crew of over 100 were rescued, some of whom swam about the sea for hours. Six cadets managed to fight their way clear of the swamped classroom. The rest were carried down with the ship in a tangle of canvas and rigging...
There are still a few vacancies in the enrollment for Engineering Sciences 4, one of the Summer School courses given annually at the Harvard Engineering camp at Squam Lake, New Hampshire. This course is conducted differently from the customary classroom and laboratory methods used in Cambridge. The students are grouped in sections of 12 men who go into the fields and woods, under the leadership of an instructor, to make measurements with the various surveying instruments. A full course credit is given toward the degrees of A.B. and S.B. upon satisfactory completion of the course...
...high school teachers. Your statement that "it is, of course, high school teachers mainly who are attacked by the blight of 'method'" is altogether erroneous. Your subsequent statement "a man takes college courses in Education, studies child psychology and pedagogy at a normal school, and finally goes into a classroom with slight knowledge of and slight interest in the subject which he is teaching" is equally wide of the mark...