Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exams, and already possessed of fragments of Christianity, he fell ill and went into a 40-day trance. During the trance, he saw visions, and later declared that he had talked with God and been ordained to rule China. Hung threw the graven tablet commemorating Confucius out of his classroom. The act brought immediate dismissal as a teacher. After Hung converted his best friend, the pair began proselytizing in Kwangsi province...
...atoms all neat round shapes, as shown in the classroom diagrams? Physicist Arthur J. Freeman of the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal thinks not. Last week, at the American Physical Society meeting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he presented evidence from recent experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where billions of reactor-bred neutrons were fired at atoms of magnetic iron, nickel and cobalt. According to Dr. Freeman's mathematical analysis, the neutrons bounced off the atoms' electrons in patterns that indicate that the atoms have varying shapes. The nuclei of iron atoms are surrounded by a cloud of electrons...
President Charles W. Eliot recalled after his resignation some of the fires throughout the University's history. One of them involved a French instructor who used to teach in the University Hall basement classroom in the 1858-9 term. He had a touchy habit of listing his agenda for the day on the blackboard and hiding it with a curtain so as not to distract his young men in class. Then he would whip the curtain back dramatically and pompously at the right time in the recitation period...
...afternoon he stuffed the cotton curtain between the wall and a smoke pipe that ran through the classroom. Early the next morning the chilly instructor lit a fire in the stove and in a few minutes found the curtain in flames. A student on his way to prayers at Appleton Chapel noticed the smoke, and University Hall was saved from serious damage. But the teacher, admired by Faculty and students, insisted that Jesuits had been pursuing him for a long time and had now resorted to means harmful to the property of the University. The deluded gentleman submitted his resignation...
...express superiority-or perhaps to achieve superiority-the 'Cliffie will often study harder than her Harvard counterpart. Militant feminism, in Cambridge, finds expression in Rank Lists and Honors. Girls, in this predominantly masculine community, can never attain equality except by competitive methods provided by competitive methods provided by the classroom...