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Word: classroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very wise decision. Maybe it was Henry Luce, though I might have made it up myself. In any event, I still feel no regrets. There's an advantage in the captive audience that I can't overstress. And so much of value goes on here completely divorced from the classroom. For instance, I thoroughly enjoy those lively discussions in the Winthrop House dining room...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: A Tall Man | 10/18/1958 | See Source »

...intend to become professionals. They like local drama for its camaraderie, its opportunities for self-expression in many ways, its abundance of different ideas, and the thrill of producing near-professional results with non-professional material. They fear that a situation in which doctrine was expounded in the classroom and enacted in the new theater would leave no room for them and their successors. John Washburn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "OBSESSIVE PURSUIT" | 10/10/1958 | See Source »

...offered for the air courses since there are no provisions for lab work, homework, checking or examinations. But some college students can get credit for a new TV course, provided they are wide awake at 6:30 each weekday morning. Starting Oct. 6, NBC's half-hour Continental Classroom has been approved by 300 colleges and universities (among them: Chicago, Rutgers, N.Y.U., Minnesota), will offer a college-level course on "Atomic Age Physics." For this venture, local schools will be responsible for answering student questions, practical work, exams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Atomic Playhouse | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...lead the resident company in a series of classroom exercises in voice and body, three instructors from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art are to visit at different times during the production year...

Author: By Carl I. Gable, | Title: Local Group Will Initiate New Theatre | 9/26/1958 | See Source »

...Berkeley Chemist Joel Hildebrand, head of the American Chemical Society advisory committee that approves every frame of the films: "We've been very careful to avoid the Walt Disneyish type of film. There are no little fairies pushing things around." Neither are molecules represented-as they are in classroom models-by little balls held together by rods. Says Hildebrand: "We have taken out the rods and put in dotted lines to represent axes. That way nobody will mistake them for anything physical." Middleman-and translator-between the chemists and the cinemakers is Earl Mortensen, one of Eyring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Films that Teach | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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