Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second and less apparent purpose of the university can be summed up in the trite phrase "to keep alive the light of learning." Those who are to turn out that indefinite product--the educated man--must have more for their background than four or even six years of classroom education, will provide. To codify and present knowledge in comprehensible form is their profession; they have dedicated themselves to the work of revealing to other men the treasures of the ages. But their duty does not end there; they must not stagnate in the mere conning over of long-known facts...
...educational institutions, this fiery and pessimistic crusader bitterly cites the Chinese famine, the disarmament conference, and the sordid evils of industrialism and finally points an interrogatory finger at the student, idle and ineffectual, at the teacher, cynical and discouraged. Inert ideas, learning unrelated to life, dullness in the classroom are some of the charges brought against modern education. "I leave the question with you" challenges this saddened educator, hoping but little...
...graceful and ever so Gallic play about graft in which the characters bear such names as Castel-Benac, Tronche-Bobine and Pitart-Vignolles, and act accordingly. It is the wistful, pathetic, ludicrous history of M. Topaze, a sad-eyed French schoolmaster with a beard, who was ousted from his classroom because he persisted in telling a wealthy parent the truth about her repulsive and boobish child. Not that M. Topaze objected to offering flattery-he was merely too simple ever to have conceived of it. He lived in a world governed by the axioms which he had tried vainly...
...represent Harvard as a visiting lecturer at another New England university with which a tradition of good will has prevailed for so many years in both academic and athletic fields. Just as the humanizing of knowledge produces wisdom, so does a friendly intercollegiate relation produce excellent results in the classroom and on the playing field. It is a pleasant hope that such a relation will continue to exist between Harvard and her Providence neighbor...
...gleanings. The creation of intellectual curiosity, and then of intellectual appreciation, in the minds of a few hundred pupils may be a greater thing than a rehashed Doctor's thesis, but it counts not as much. The great teacher may suffer from a prosaic style when he forsakes the classroom for the more material pen, but he publishes all the same; forced by this vicissitude of present convention...