Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graaff generator, made it a practice to get to work early in order to have time for any problems the boys and girls might have. Then one day in 1954, three members of the faculty called him into a classroom and made an extraordinary suggestion. "Well, Bix," one of them said, "we've been talking about you, and we've decided that you should go to college and get a teaching certificate...
...blonde, 25-year-old woman walked nervously into a large classroom in Geneva one day last week for one of the most exhausting ordeals of her life. Before her sat six facultymen, including experts in English, French and Italian. Behind, a crowd of students waited eagerly to see her perform. They had good reason for wanting to do so: of 750 students at the Interpreters' School, Giovanna Cuirlo of Genoa was the only one found qualified this term to try for the school's highest prize-the conference (or parliamentary) interpreter's certificate...
...buildings, most built around the turn of the century, ceilings are falling, stairways have started to pull away from the walls. Window casements are rotting, beams sagging. In the Broadway school, the Harvardmen noted that "classroom floors vibrate when walked upon." Some of the windows that lead to the fire escapes in the Prospect school are either screened or nailed shut; Middle Street and Pidge schools have no fire escapes at all. Six schools have no sprinkler system. Of the Cottage school the Harvardmen warned: "Any internal fire that would cause the collapse of the wooden staircases could trap children...
This sweeping change in the academic curriculum, affecting all students, aims for "less dependence upon teaching" and more "independence in learning," President John S. Dickey said yesterday. The new system will shift the emphasis from conventional textbook and classroom to source work and library study...
...first classroom appearance, and the shy, drawling visiting lecturer admitted being "terrified." If he could not get a good discussion going, then he would simply be wasting everybody's time. Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner (Sanctuary, The Sound and the Fury) need not have worried. Last week, as he began his five-month tenure as the University of Virginia's first visiting "writer in residence," he proved from the start that in his own quiet, philosophic way, he would give his students plenty to talk about...