Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the war's end, the nation's universities have been staggering under an ever-increasing load of students, realizing full well that the classroom boom is not only a temporary bull market brought on by the G.I. Bill, but evidence of a growing college population that has just been speeded up by it. Yet the problem of handling the great influx has only recently received careful study. President Truman's Commission on Higher Education, appointed in July, 1946, issued a report--the first of six--on December 15, in which it firmly faces the future of American colleges...
...initial weeks has worn off, that the college is a group community. He sees his companions, faces that have already become familiar to him, eating together in the Union, going to the movie in rapidly solidifying groups. In every place that the rude alphabetical democracy of the classroom does not apply this breakdown evolves. Later in the year it is a matter of applying for Houses, and the yard roommate pattern is altered...
...well-rounded man is not a mere product of the classroom, no matter how excellent the instruction. The man who has found a niche in the social structure finds Harvard a worthwhile place. The man who has to is a man for Dean Bender to worry about...
Most surprising to observers was the fact that 46 percent of the dissatisfied laid the blame directly in front of "too much teaching or grading," for, as the Teachers Union report points out, "only about 15 percent of a Harvard 'teacher's' working time is spent inside the classroom...
...informed that a writer in the CRIMSON has charged me with locking the doors of my classroom against late comers. This I have never once done in my thirty-five years of teaching. Your contributor may have gained his impression from the fact that last year, with a course of 600 students, I had the assistants refuse admission to those who appeared later than seven minutes after the hour. I assume, however, that even your writer would not regard this action as unreasonable in the case of a nine o'clock class. In any event, the action involved no possible...