Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blackboard Labor. He took a job as traveling salesman for a textbook publishing company, and it was then that he got his big idea. In classroom after classroom, he had seen children laboriously copying off spelling drills from the blackboard. From his own experience, he knew that the teacher had probably spent hours thinking up the exercises. W.P. began to wonder whether there might not be a simpler way to carry on the drill...
...reason for keeping Radcliffe students out of our society when they are allowed in the classroom with us," Danoff asserted...
...Cannon House was removed from the rolls of rented property and that summer it was completely renovated in preparation for the establishment of a center which might give Harvard and Radcliffe students, and their friends, and opportunity to continue beyond the limits of the classroom their efforts to understand and appreciate foreign cultures...
Berrien has noted what he calls a "vicious circle" in the club meetings themselves: outside speakers do not stimulate student participation; on the other hand, some people will not attend a meeting unless they can listen to a speaker. Berrien feels this often becomes a fourth classroom lecture, which is exactly what he tries to avoid. He supposes that some students are "organically spectators," but he is still anxious to strike a successful balance between speakers and student discussion groups, and he would like to introduce more round tables and debates...
...John Reed Club feels that the present exclusion of Radclife students from Lamont (while Harvard men are allowed to use the Radcliffe library) is a discriminatory policy which unfairly prevents women students from using the best possible study and classroom facilities available at Harvard-Radcliffe...