Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every student's desk at Edgewood hangs a brand-new gas mask, product of a factory on the reservation where 2,000 women workers hem, stitch and vulcanize masks for the expanding Army. The masks hang in the classroom both as symbols and instruments of instruction. Edgewood's students are there to learn more than how and when to don a gas mask. Of the lethal gases they learn that chlorine, phosgene and diphosgene attack a man's lungs, are soon blown away. More deadly are mustard and lewisite, which hang in wooded areas for days...
...Council believes that any program of military training at Harvard should be confined to its technical or classroom aspects," the statement read, adding that "condemnation of military drill at this time is in complete accord with a large majority of opinion on this question...
...CRIMSON news competition is not designed particularly for the boy who intends to make the newspaper business his life's career. It is for the Freshman who has an itching to learn more about Harvard and more from Harvard than he can find in a Sever classroom...
...Harvard the responsibility for enforcement of those peace pledges rests on you. No name alone can do that job. Rather from the dormitory, from the classroom, from the club, and from the team must come that resounding activity which will chart for America a course more fortunate than Wilson...
British boys found classes more informal and discipline less strict in U. S. schools, were shocked to discover that U. S. pupils are never caned. They startled strangers by tipping their hats, surprised their classmates by jumping to their feet whenever a teacher entered their classroom. In classes, British pupils showed they knew more of world affairs (more even than some of their teachers), were far ahead of their classmates in vocabulary and foreign languages, not so good in mathematics and spelling, pretty bad in Western Hemisphere geography and U. S. history. On one thing they all agreed: they...