Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That morning it was quite late before Franz started for school. When he got there he was surprised to see the elders of his Alsatian village gathered in the classroom. M. Hamel, teacher for 40 years, was in his Sunday green frock coat. "My children," he said, "this is the last day I shall teach you. The order has come from Berlin that henceforth in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine all instructions shall be in the German tongue only...
...only four skilled tradesmen (a supervisor, electrician, plumber, concrete finisher), he built an $800,000 (architect's estimate) plant-new high school, gymnasium, agricultural building and remodeled junior high-for $550,000. His students carved, pegged, built all the furniture, tanned leather for office chairs, wove rawhide for classroom chairs, hammered hinges, lamps and other hardware from scrap iron, wove mohair rugs and draperies...
...every year of some 200 boys who hail from far & wide, pay $1,000 a year for their tuition and upkeep. One of the six military schools in the country which has never had an honor graduate separated from West Point, Shattuck drills its boys as smartly in the classroom as on the parade ground. Shattuck boys call themselves Shads, their food "garbage," the girls of nearby St. Mary's "saints," the demerits they get (for anything from an unmilitary snicker to an unmade bed) "soaks." Proudest Shads are those who make the Crack Squad of 16 boys, which...
...Williams, as famed History Professor Frederick L. Schuman climaxed a series of pro-Ally classroom lectures with a prediction that "we are rapidly approaching . . . the end of Western civilization," the Williams Record exploded with a front-page editorial blast: "Is This Education?" Stormed the Record: "Day after day, lecture after lecture, he indulges in his own prophecies. . . . It violates all the ethics of the teaching profession...
...Harvard, members of a student "Committee for the Recognition of Classroom Generals" picketed (in gas masks) a class of interventionist History Teacher Paul P. Cram, sent tin soldiers and armchair professorial citations to five other professors. Meanwhile 34 members of the class of '17 sent a letter to the Crimson deploring undergraduate pacifism...