Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before winter dawn, by the TV screen's eerie blue glare, the show's rumpled star looks like an insomniac alchemist. With spectacles sliding down his nose, he brews electrons, protons and mesons while evoking Newton, Faraday, Planck, Einstein and Heisenberg. To watch NBC's Continental Classroom (6:307 a.m.), some 275,000 Americans are sacrificing sleep for science five days a week...
...have seen the aids call them excellent. Says Harvard's famed Physicist Gerald Holton: "Insofar as this material is new, it is striking, but it also represents another thing: that the Russians have expended precious technical thought on scientific educational equipment." The U.S. makes nothing like the classroom wave-motion machine, and an American-made projector that costs Harvard $300 serves the purpose no better than a Russian model that costs $24.50 (plus 40% duty) delivered in New York. Adds Dr. Albert Navez, whose high school program in Newton, Mass, last year turned out both winners of the Westinghouse...
...latest Russian joke going the rounds in London is the story of an inspector from the Moscow school system who drops into a classroom and asks the teacher: "Have you any exceptionally bright students...
Europe itself is the subject most painstakingly studied. Field trips-to Rome for art and architecture, to Berlin for political science-fill in the outlines of classroom lectures. Three-day weekends during the summer and fall allow long freelance forays. "There was." according to one report, "a definite trend to Lederhosen" Wrote Friedrich W. Strothmann, head of Stanford's modern languages department and, with General Studies Chairman Robert A. Walker, originator of the Landgut Burg school: the students typically "hop on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon and come back Sunday from Venice and Salzburg after having seen a Mozart opera...
Dean Bender replies, however, that any such increase would cause serious difficulties in Lamont, the I.A.B., classroom space, and other central facilities, even if the individual Houses are not crowded...