Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Counsel, while in fact the students who went to tutors, and all others who cram both then and now, are perfectly well supplied with grey matter. The trouble lies in the fact that they have in no way been intellectually stimulated by what Harvard has to offer in the classroom, and, since most of them do not intend to go into scholarly careers, they were and are quite content to get passing grades by cramming with or without professional help...
They were telling a story in Europe this week. In a Bulgarian classroom, a Communist teacher asked her hungry pupils to recite the Lord's Prayer. When they had finished, they were still hungry. Then the teacher led them in a new prayer which began "Our Father Stalin. . . ." Suddenly, through a hole in the ceiling, straight from the Marxist heaven, tumbled loaf after loaf of bread...
...Dastardly Crime at Midnight is made to order for the Mason treatment and after a slow start in a well-lit classroom, murder captures the sound-track. A doctor (Mason) tells his criminology class of a case of revenge, the camera reveals in flashbacks that Mason is his own subject, and that his lecture only anticipates his later actions. The original scheme, however, breaks down in practice and Mason's outlook gets blacker and blacker as complications arise between the killing and the burying. He does what he can to lose the body, but finally fails when he is persuaded...
...course dealing with sex ought to have a niche in the catalogue of courses. It is possible, some will suggest, that most local students would stand little to learn from such a course; but it is more likely that enough undergraduates to fill at least a medium-sized classroom do not feel their knowledge on the subject to be exhaustive...
...feared the loss of the antiseptic power of criticism if the measure were enacted into law, and said that students would realize that opinions expressed in the classroom were not free but dictated...