Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Professor Yasumaro Shimojo walked into a large, dirty classroom at Nippon University in Tokyo. Grey old Shimojo had just been named Education Minister in Premier Shigeru Yoshida's precarious new cabinet...
...Appeal to Reason and Conscience" demanding that the New York City board change its mind. New York City's School Superintendent William Jansen had defended the ban as "based on the long-established American tradition that religious discussions and criticism of religion have no place in the classroom of the public high school...
...graduate center," according to President Conant, "will bring the University close to its ideal of a community of scholars and students sharing their ideas and experiences informally in the classroom...
When a Negro entered the University of Arkansas' law school last semester, its trustees decreed absolute segregation, put him in a separate classroom. Several white students asked permission to join him so that they could bone up away from their own crowded classes. This fall the school permitted its only Negro to attend regular classes, but put a railing around his chair. Last week the trustees bowed to student scoffing at this pretense, ordered the barrier removed...
...tutors to the armed services and other Universities, the Department of Economics voted in 1946 to abolish its tutorial. This year Economics 10, "Thesis for Honors," has been struck from the catalogue. Together, the two measures now leave Economics concentrators little personal contact with their instructors outside the classroom. While every attempt is being made to give Honors candidates individual guidance in writing their theses, still it is all done on a non-credit basis...