Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to classroom politics, Herman was fond of history, biography and a study of the U.S. Constitution. Other pleasures: Greek and Roman classics, Gibbon's Decline and Fall. He stayed late only if the class was debating. Other days he went home to his chores. One afternoon in 1930, while Herman was picking turnips, the house caught fire and burned to the ground (with one casualty, a German shepherd dog named Al Smith). Gene, who was spending weekdays in Atlanta as agriculture commissioner and only weekends at home as a father, took advantage of the fire to move...
...Houses, starting in Winthrop with an Economics 1 section this term and planning sections in other courses next year. The intrahouse sections, Ferry believes, will place students and faculty on a more intimate and informal footing. The arrangement should also encourage students to discuss course material informally, outside the classroom. The result should be a House with a more friendly and interesting atmosphere...
...program does have its limitations, however. Conference and classroom facilities are in short supply in the Houses, although Winthrop has found it possible to remodel existing rooms. But the new Houses will relieve much of the present space shortage, and the new buildings should provide rooms for intra-house sections. The system would not, however, include those subjects which require special equipment, like science, music, and fine arts. Lectures will still be held in the Yard, and seminars at the convenience of the professor...
...facilitate the new sections, Winthrop House is setting up a special room which can seat twenty students conference style, as opposed to a classroom. Similar rooms should be planned for the proposed new Houses, the Senior Tutor recommended. "It is generally anticipated that as the College grows, the Houses will become the intellectual as well as social centers...
...situation is further complicated by the probable reaction of the whites to Negro teachers in integrated schools. They will not like it. Having Negro children in the classroom is quite different from having a Negro teacher, who will have considerably more influence on the white students than their fellow Negro classmates. This prospect may increase southern resistance to integration to an unmanageable point...