Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem, for colleges can give up the ambition to be large; second, that the course as a teaching device is not the object of attack at all, but rather the course as a unit of credit. The teaching of groups--not merely by lecturing, but by discussion and other classroom procedures--ought certainly not to be abandoned; it ought rather to be cultivated. But why obscure the realities of learning by inducing a false and perfunctory interest in the accumulation of marks for courses? And why insist that group teaching shall be done in units of uniform length...
When on May n, 1871, Ferdinand Foch, a young student at the Jesuit College of St. Clement's at Metz, heard the classroom windows rattle to the guns' announcement that the city was now German, the nightmare of the Franco-Prussian War turned into a dream of revanche. He fed the dream with legends of Napoleon; his religious training gave him the very highest sanctions. From the Polytechnique he pushed through the Ecole d'Application, the Cavalry School at Saumur, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. In 1890 he was summoned to the General Staff at the Ministry...
Popular opinion is otherwise. Only a hardy instructor of psychology dares demonstrate hypnotism in an undergraduate classroom. Undaunted youth, nonetheless, finds places to practice...
...present case, the fact that college professors alone in the department of Italian education are required to take the oath is particularly injurious. It confirms the suspicion that the intention is not merely to insure support of Fascism, but to throttle the free investigation of political theory in the classroom...
...full realization of the Harkness Plan, of course, has not yet been achieved, but the "Exonian" feels qualified to comment justly on one phase that has been realized. We refer to the reduction of the size of classroom sections and the introduction of the conference plan. Limited classes have served to facilitate the instruction of the laggard and at the same time to stimulate the desire of the able. Questions can now be discussed more fully and the student is called upon to fall back on his own individual mentality more than ever before. In general, it can be said...