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Word: classroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Arkansas, which recently refused to admit a Negro law student, said that it would reconsider if he reapplied. He could use the law library and study under the regular faculty-but in a separate classroom. Negro undergraduates, however, will still be refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The One Best Way | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Only Yale, from which Bertie McCormick had graduated in 1903, was still undefiled. Said the old school Trib: "The most striking trait of [Yale] university is 'democracy' ... a visitor may meet with rumors of propaganda . . . being preached in the classroom, but such practice would be difficult to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Poisoned Ivy | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Presumably with a straight face, they offer, among others, such moral gems as "Don't cram before exams;" "Freshmen, play upon to the sophomore and upperclassmen. . . .ask for advice;" "Don't chew gum insistently" (sic); "Don't bring midget radios to the classroom;" "Don't be bashful about reciting;" "Don't change roommates every week--adjust yourself;" "Leave the bathroom as you ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Mag Tells How to Be Collegiate | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

Actually, Piston's Third was less strident and mechanized than most of the music he has written in the past 20 years. Hostile critics have found his music as bony and bare as a blackboard counterpoint exercise in his Harvard classroom. But the Third had three movements of lyrical tranquillity before bursting into a noisy finale. The finale, said Piston, was written in Vermont while a well-driller was digging an artesian well outside his window. "I had to write the music loud enough to overcome the noise outside," said Piston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Competition for a Well-Digger | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Brinton's latest book, "The United States and Britain," is "notable for its omission," according to the Tribune, and typical of a discussion Brinton might be expected to lead in the classroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brinton Britain's Charlie McCarthy Says Trib's Blast | 1/14/1948 | See Source »

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