Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than that. The counting out of his personality by contact with the wide variety of his contemporaries for example, is also an object of any really worthy secondary school. It has always been the boast of Exeter that her students have accomplished exactly this by constant mingling in the classroom, on the campus, and on the athletic fields. Will the segregation of small numbers of students be detrimental to the rounding out of personalities...
...even recognizing Harvard's heritage of genuine Colonial buildings. In particular, though Holden Chapel is conceded to be an unusual felicitous example in miniature of Colonial design, the inside of the building cannot be shown to visitors without apology. It has been allowed to degenerate into a dreary classroom whose mutilated boners and chairs are suggestive of some foreign country school...
Parents are informed beforehand of the nature of the course; children are urged to carry home the classroom discussions. Parents and teachers, reports Superintendent Beatty, find Elementary Biology useful; many believe that it should be taught sooner, in the fifth or sixth grade...
Today sociology is leaving the sequestered backwaters of the classroom for open sea. Simmons students of sociology are hopeful that a tete-a-tete with the striking longshoremen of Boston will prove an enlarging experience for all concerned. Following at the tail of this scheme comes the opening of a love clinic by the sociology department of Northwestern University. The head of the department will endeavor to light the way of unhappy lovers whose full moon has waned. In the cause of science he hopes to learn a trick or two himself...
...Robinson, whose edition of Chaucer's works is being prepared by Houghton-Mifflin. This year Professor Lowes returns to the second half of the course after an absence from it of two years. While abroad he lectured on "the morning star of English poetry," and with his gift for classroom brilliance, so long known to members of English 72, he should make the reading of the "Troilus and Criseyde" thoroughly enjoyable. The minor poems also will come in for their share of attention...