Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Summer term begins in July, great teachers will find themselves lecturing to about eight hundred students in accomodations for a peace time three thousand, five hundred. At the same time service men on leave in Boston, many of them fresh from college classrooms, will find themselves footloose and fancy free, hungry for something besides bars and burlesque. These two problems could be partially resolved if the University would agree to open its almost sacrosanct classroom doors to a limited number of soldiers and sailors...
Within the classroom thus secluded, Teacher on occasion used all the psychological aids to pedagogy that have proved effective with bird dogs and masses. When the "Fascist Beast" was unchained on the side away from Russia, in 1939, Pravda and company kept the Russians constantly informed of the "War in Europe" waged by the "Plutocratic Aggressors," i.e., France and England. When military foresight required that the Mannerheim Line be taken, the Russian press reported at length on a "glorious Finnish revolution," wholly mythical, against the "White Guard bandits," i.e., the Finnish government. When Pravda, last fall, editorialized several times...
...latest from Camp Lee has it that the former B Schoolers have been evacuated from the classroom and sent into the field for six weeks' work. Their hours in the field now run from 6 A.M to 6 PM, with the time from then on to "light out" at 11 being free for their...
...procedure in most cases was this: A freshman class, preferably in American history although any other subject was all right, would walk into the regular classroom at the regular time and instead of the regular lecture would be presented with the examination, told it did not count in their mark, and instructed not to sign their names...
Sport for Deflection. While the student learns his guns in the classroom, he also learns to shoot with real weapons from his first week, usually becomes so enamored of his subject that he never wants to go to town, always calls himself "gunner." Shooting begins against fixed targets with .22-caliber rifles. But this is just to check fundamentals. For the rest of the course, Gunner Doe fires at targets on the wing. In an aircraft, almost all his shooting will be at fleeting targets, and the emphasis in training must be on "deflection" shooting, i.e., leading a target...