Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buck" Turner is one case in favor of the "first-name" system. Outside the classroom he is completely at home with the students and is respected in class for his ability as a science teacher...
...matters, standards for accreditation are somewhat nebulus. Especially in New England, where Yale, M.I.T. and Harvard tend to dominate educational societies, these standards are based largely on intangibles: there are few definite regulations and only vague specifications on such matters as financial stability, size of library, and laboratory and classroom facilities...
...courses--Introductory Geology and Masters of Modern Drama--will be telecast from the WGBH-TV Studio in Cambridge, each as a combined classroom course and telecast. Students will attend at the studio, where there will be discussion after the program...
...Ordered Diet. In the classroom, the six schools require comprehensive liberal-arts and science courses, then give students a chance to do independent work if they are willing and able. "We don't allow our students to shop cafeteria style," says Dr. A. Blair Knapp, Denison's chain-smoking, crew-cut president. Since 1948 Denison has fed its students a heavy diet of such broad courses as "Basic Philosophic and Religious Ideas" and "History of Western Civilization...
...make sure each of his students marches alone, Gould this fall is starting a free elective system so complex that it will require the beginning student to take some six hours of indoctrination lectures. This program dovetails with Antioch's famous "study-plus-work" plan, which alternates classroom work on the campus with full-time off-campus jobs aimed at helping the student's "personal development, his general education and his vocational training." One loyal employer of Antioch students: the Columbus Citizen. "It's a little unnerving," notes one staffer. "When the Antioch kids aren...