Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Classicists Cairns, Tate and Van Doren earnestly tried to enliven their performance with modern applications of the classics. Quite without sparkle, their program plodded at a pedestrian classroom pace. Nonetheless, to the amazement of one & all, by last week it had attained an estimated audience of 1,000,000. Half a dozen publishers began to sell cheap editions of the classics hand over fist, 4,000 libraries found the books in such demand that they dug them out of dusty stacks, put them on special shelves...
Shocking to many a Los Angeles teacher were Mrs. Cole's reports of classroom conversations, of the children's blackboard "newspaper." Excerpts...
...results. This summer the remarkable creations of her pupils-mostly Mexicans, Chinese and Japanese-were displayed at progressive teachers' workshops in the U. S., at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Distributed among U. S. teachers this week was a highly readable book, The Arts in the Classroom (John Day; $1.75), in which Mrs. Cole told how she teaches...
...them in. The children sat in its red leather chairs, hobbled up its ramps (just for exercise, the school had a few stairs to its observation tower), found handrails along every wall, adjustable chairs and tables, two lavatories, a drinking fountain and a grassy outdoor playground next to each classroom. Other equipment: arts & crafts shops, sewing machines, two model kitchens...
...days later an anonymous "Committee for the Recognition of Classroom Generals" sent tin toys to six professors, with cliations such as the following: "To Samuel H. Cross, an anti-aircraft gun to carry out his plan to defend the Women's Clubs of America from a fate worse than death...