Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried feebly to make teaching tools of them decades ago. Even now they are a mere educational side show. But last week the University of Chicago gave signs of leading a movement into the main tent. The University's President Robert Maynard Hutchins accepted as a gift Eastman Classroom Films, Inc., a $1,000,000 outfit which has been pretty much in the doldrums because the educational buyers of Eastman's raw film have never liked the competition of finished Eastman reels...
...instructor had a shock several weeks ago when, after dismissing his class, he walked into the hall, looked into another classroom and saw Bob's alter ego reciting. The teacher "swore off" for a few days...
Gothenburg, Neb.'s Beulah I. Hilblink : of the 112,000 U.S. public schoolteachers who quit their classrooms in 1942-43, she was one who helped solve the teacher shortage by returning to her classroom. Quitting a Washington job, she made a statement which has been read by thousands of teachers: "If in the years of peace ... I am asked, 'What did you contribute toward our victory?' I shall be glad and proud to answer,'I was a teacher...
...Rossi: (lately hitched) a copy of Cl to occupy his off-hours and weekends. . . . To Long: our notes, assiduously compiled in radio engineering. . . . McCarthey: Recommendations for a staff billet. . . . Newnam: a calendar to be used on his next leave. . . . Mr. Glennon: an unexpurgated copy of "Gertie from Bizerte" for classroom use. . . . Then, of ciurse, we cannot forget OUR BOY . . . to OUR BOY we leave the following: some assorted grimaces, a half-dozen new stances, our love, and a New Revised copy of School Regs. . . . Corley: the telephone number of the best decorated bank in Cambridge (especially the rear windows). . . . "Feather...
...town schoolteacher (played by Ann Dere) to an erstwhile pupil, a soldier who has just been decorated. While the soldier-whose face never appears-reads it, her voice speaks it. While she speaks, the camera wanders gently and perceptively among the people and places to which she refers-the classroom, the main street by day and by night, the church, the school bus, the soldier's home (a farm) and his parents, the war work of various auxiliaries, a Friday night dance at the High School, a parade which culminates in the dedication of Roll of Honor, in tribute...