Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fore River Student Labor Committee, Harvard boasts a group that applies the theory of classroom and debating-club to the practical problems of labor organization. This Committee is not political. It subscribes to the democratic principle of industrial unionism. It recognizes that a mutual understanding between students and laborers is essential to the defense of democracy now and its extension later. The task of organizing the Fore River Shipyard of Bethlehem Steel provides an ideal situation for the field work of the Committee and a happy direction in extra-curricular life at Harvard in general...
...Officer Candidate Schools (and the rest of the 10,000 who will finish their training by next summer) had the pick of the Army's young brains to whip them into shape. For 13 weeks they had turned out with the sun, had been taught in field and classroom until the sun was down, had often sat up until 11 o'clock at night poring over the texts on which they were examined. It was a tough course. The haphazard, the uninterested and the stupid (about 10%) fell by the wayside...
...more than 50 years Professor Kittredge was a big part--to many people the biggest part--of Harvard. His inimitable classroom or actor's manner, which differed entirely from that of his private life, will long be perpetuated in the innumerable anecdotes, some true, many apocryphal, that have, cycle-wise been attracted to his name. A great teacher who was a brilliant actor, he became to undergraduates and to the fourth estate a legendary figure an unfalling source of entertaining "copy". But too much has been said and printed about his delibarately assumed if effective, mannerisms. Graduate students and colleagues...
Completing plans for fall broadcasts and announcing the opening next week of a competition for all boards, the Harvard Radio Workshop has started its fifth year of undergraduate extracurricular study of radio drama techniques. The Workshop's first essay into crime plays is "The Corpse in the Classroom," the opening drama in a collection of six blood and thunder tales to be presented over the college network in the near future...
...course on radio education, considering problems of the use of radio in the classroom as well as the effect of the radio on society, will be presented this year at the Harvard Graduate School of Education by Charles A. Siepmann, University Lecturer at Harvard, formerly Director of Program Planning of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The course, offered primarily for educators, will be conducted Thursday evenings from...