Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was something intensely irritating about Morris Raphael Cohen; he was always making students think. In his crowded classroom at the College of the City of New York, Professor Cohen carefully, clinically exposed soft spots in a dozen philosophers. Once, on the last day of a course, a student spoke up desperately: "Professor, you have taken many of our beliefs away, but you have given us nothing to substitute." Snapped Cohen: "It is not recorded that Hercules was asked to do any more than clean the Augean stables...
...Conference Plan, the friendly relationship between students and professors-some of the finest and most learned men in the educational world-the classroom, the athletic field, the Chapel: these to us are Rollins. We hope . . . you will come to understand and appreciate...
Forty red-cheeked German girls, bundled up in jackets, overcoats and boots, huddled in a chill classroom of Berlin's Louisa Henriette Schule for their regular lesson in Demokratische Weltanschauung (Democratic Outlook). The Magistrat, the Allied-approved municipal council, had ordered their professor, snowy-thatched Ernst Weber, to teach them about the Nürnberg trials. He began...
...nontheatrical projectors which you mention), but the huge backlogs of orders on the books of the manufacturers of 16-millimeter projectors, indicate bigger and happier minnie-movie audiences in the home, church, club group, recreation hall and other 16-millimeter stands, not by any means overlooking the classroom...
...Gentlemen," said the English professor, "this course is too large. Perhaps I can discourage some of you by announcing that I am using lecture notes I used five years ago." In another classroom, a 73-year old Gov. professor surrendered his seat to a standing student...