Word: classroom
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...