Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Suñer recalls that months later he learned that the lad's ears were as excellent as the grade he got. His hearing aid was actually a chuleta, a two-way phone with a wire running from the student to the back of the large classroom, where an accomplice, armed with a canon-law textbook, dictated flawless responses directly into the examinee's ear. Said Dr. Pi y Suñer: "If I had realized he was cheating at that time, I would have given him a double A. The fellow will...
Although the program has undergone many changes over the years, and has grown from 14 to 104 members, the aims are substantially the same: "to give the student an acquaintance, at first hand, and out of the classroom, with the virtues and defects of the teaching staff," as Dean Leighton puts...
...loss to explain his abstruse theories, but they never lack affectionate anecdotes about the man himself. Never did a genius act more like a genius. Von Karman speaks at least seven languages, but his English carries a heavy load of Hungarian accent. When he used to lecture in the classroom, he supplemented speech with intricate gestures. He often wore a black silk cape and was never without a handkerchief, which he twisted, pulled or even chewed during moments of stress...
...defunct medical school squatted quietly near Waltham, Mass. The 200 acres of grass and mud were violated only by a stable, a single classroom building, a few houses, and The Castle, a fantastic melange of turrets and crenelations...
...Castle was entirely remodeled, and was followed in rapid order by Ford and Sydeman, classroom buildings; Ullman amphitheatre, with its indoor auditorium built on the stage designed for outdoor use; neat blocks of dormitories; A Student Union; the Shapiro athletic center; the already famed Three Chapels. Now under construction are the Slosberg Music and Art Center, and a $2,500,000 science building, made possible by a grant from the Hayden Foundation...