Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principle building goal calls for construction of a $2,000,000 Student Activities Center. Actual work on this building and a planned classroom building will start contingent on the world situation...
...camera-and-receiver TV unit. Expected cost: about $20,000.* CBS thought that medical groups, which for some time now have been viewing operations in color TV, would be the likeliest customers. CBS and Rand hope also to sell the system for relaying corporate meetings to stockholders, and for classroom use. As for the eventual mass consumer market, CBS Vice President Adrian Murphy quipped: "You have to smoke a little opium before you really can see its potential...
This year Headmaster Clark decided to take his plan one step farther. Last week he had 14 of his boys in Paris, starting off each morning with a breakfast of croissants and cafe au lait, studying four hours in a Sorbonne classroom, then fanning out over the city to see the sights. Everything was according to the Kiski plan: concentrating on a single subject, the boys had begun to handle French with assurance...
...these great events was only dimly heard in Wu's classroom. Wu was a bright pupil. Because he was the smallest boy in his class, he was invariably seated in the first row where he could get a better view of the blackboard. Next to him in the front row usually sat a mandarin's son named Chou Enlai...
...University of Southern California's Owen Cochran Coy, 66, hulking (6 ft. 5 in., 200 lbs.), indefatigable chronicler of early California history (The Great Trek, Gold Days). Lumbering about his classroom or sitting in his cluttered study. Professor Coy taught and talked history with the air of a reminiscent prospector. Over the years he traveled thousands of miles along pioneer trails, tabulated the names of more than 57,000 old California settlements, came to know as much about Grizzly Gulch, Whiskey Slide, Swellhead Diggings, Loafers' Flat and Lousy Level as any man alive...