Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient times, the place of learning was usually a temple, a garden or a cloister. Compared with all these, the conventional classroom can seem pretty cold, college dormitory little more than a nest of cells. But with the huge increases in college endowments and enrollments over the past decade, old grads have been trying earnestly to provide their sons with something better than they had themselves, in the process have launched the biggest building boom ever on U.S. campuses across the land...
...youth and experimental nature, the group operates in a flexible, vague way. Once an applicant gets over the initial hurdle of Group IV, junior standing, and honor grades in his field, he arranges his schedule and program directly with the school principal or department head and with his classroom teacher. He reports back to HUT only occasionally...
...does not spend all his time in the classroom. Preparation for talks and drawing up assignments take up time away from school. Classroom time includes observation or leading question periods. These different activities may add up to the maximum of ten hours, but the amount of time spent varies...
...Classroom teachers are enthusiastic, if only because they don't have to write reports on HUT's as they do for the horde of "practice teachers" from local college teacher-training programs. And the scheduling process is so flexible that teachers do not feel an HUT is trespassing on his domain. The relationship between the two "varies from flunky to research assistant, to guest lecturer," as a Newton High...
...especially well in the sciences. Equalitarian Oberlin bans automobiles, and although almost every student pedals a bicycle, the hot spots of Cleveland-and Elyria-are out of effective range. But high spirits burst out, sometimes beerily. Night climbing expeditions have been known to ascend the lumpish fagades of classroom buildings, and a recent visitor saw two happy collegians reeling along on a motorcycle, one sitting backwards and whanging a guitar...