Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cause of this peacetime expansion in addition to the tremendous advances made during the war is the reorganization of the whole Psychology Department brought about by the new Department of Social Relations which started its official career in the classroom in June. A combination formed form part of the Anthropology Department, part of the Psychology Department and the now defunct Sociology Department, Social relations is an attempt to integrate the related parts of these three field which heretofore have been artificially departmentalized...
...past few years journalists, writers, and economists have come out of Russia in good, if not a wholly satisfying, number. Men capable of teaching the language, where particular ideological beliefs cannot enter importantly, are available. If the Harvard plan is ever to get off paper and into the classroom these and every other source must be tapped...
...working in a Los Angeles bank before the war, trying to save enough money for a college education. The twenty-three year old ex-Corporal had patiently snapped greenbacks, balanced ledgers, and rolled up coins, waiting for the time she could give up a cozy cage for an overheated classroom...
...Radcliffe girl with her pile of books has increased the confusion in already crowded classrooms. She has taken with a minimum of mumbling the classroom changes at the beginning of each term, although she occasionally wonders whether she is attending the Peripatetic School or Harvard University. With good grace she has given up Widener for the basement of Memorial Chapel, and for the most part she obeys the order to "sit in a lady-like manner" on the steps of that building. She ignores the vertical stares of Harvard veterans although she is tempted to retaliate in kind...
Professor Zimmerman's troubles may not yet be over. On the steps of Emerson he's been getting dark, ruminative looks from Radcliffe blondes. Possibly they are failing to take the objective view of his recent classroom statement that in Rome street-walkers used to make their status unmistakable simply by donning blonde wigs...