Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revised to permit all subjects to share equally the advantageous hours of the day. As a proper setting for the plan, the dingy, formal old schoolroom desks in Reid Hall-carved by four generations of Lake Foresters-were ripped out. Tables, chairs, businesslike office desks were installed. A classroom at L. F. A. now looks like the board room of a successful but curiously youthful business house. Last week Headmaster Richards was able to announce the tangible and intangible results of his plan. To him they seemed highly encouraging...
...enthusiasm and noise, this mixed crowd was not collegiate at heart. Director Lucas, who views higher education with political alarm, had carefully picked his Young Republican delegates mostly from petty jobholders. Last April he said: "Many of our universities and colleges are literally saturated with Radicalism. Text books, classroom lectures and private conversations ... are antagonistic to the traditional policies of the Republican party. ... As it is hopeless to expect a reform ... the approach to the young man and woman must be made independent of our educational system...
Antioch College this June reaped precious usufruct of its work-study plan. Cooperative arrangements between classroom and factory, office or field were maintained with difficulty through last year. But, exulted Antioch last week, "They were maintained." Antioch seniors who want jobs have them, even though one man has been cooking on a Venezuela oil tanker and another is barnstorming the U. S. with an autogiro...
...should not be assumed that a good teacher is not wanted at college. Harvard, in particular, could use to great advantage a few additional men whose classroom ability consists in more than more scholarly lectures. The University possesses a few, and has had its share in the past. Great teachers are part of Harvard's past, and should provide some part of her future...
...college graduates tend increasingly to become salesmen and executives, instead of professors, doctors, architects, lawyers, or divines. By putting a premium on the nicely articulate expression of one's own thoughts instead of the inclusive repetition of the thoughts of other men, as is usually the case in, classroom recitation, the undergraduate would acquire an ease in the use of language and in expressing himself which would stand him in good stead in post-college life. --The Dartmouth...