Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only does such a program serve to strengthen the tenuous bond between town and gown, but it also supplies an extremely valuable type of training to the participating students. There is a certain point beyond which no amount of classroom instruction will improve a speaker's technique; then it is that experience comes into its own as the best possible teacher...
When the Bureau of Traffic Research deserted its quarters in Sever's attic and mover to Yale, the University decided to turn over what was waste space into a much-needed classroom. To head the new project the College chose Reginald H. Phelps '30, Assistant in History and in German and Assistant Dean...
...appeal will succeed without door-to-door canvassing. As the incident of the Spanish ambulance showed, such a procedure adds the distasteful angle of compulsion to what should be purely voluntary contributions. By prominent display money can be collected just as well in the dining halls and in classroom entries...
...only fair to warn all men to beware of the long, shiny things hanging from the roofs of the classroom buildings. Harvard Hall has the undisputed blue-ribbon icicle of the Yard. It measures a good three feet from tip to tip, and tapers from a saucer-like beginning down to a needle-sharp nonentity. At precisely the stroke of eleven o'clock this morning, a neighbor of this glistening giant gave one sickening shudder and came crashing earthward among the terrified students of "Shakespeare complete" as they elbowed their way into the Hall. Pale, twitching faces gratefully expressed...
...question of whether high marks do not entail a sacrifice of extracurricular activities is left unsolved by the records of the 23 hand-picked "Conant men" who made honors last year. Nine of them took no part in any organized activity outside the classroom, but others made a good record. Seven were drawn into musical activities, and five became debaters. The HSU drew three...