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Word: classroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where do we put it? Do we build a second Indoor Athletics Building, and where would it be located? Where do we find additional playing fields and tennis courts for 1,000 more students if we are to maintain our athletics-for-all program? How much more laboratory and classroom space, how many more lecture halls holding 500-1,000 will have to be provided and where will the new buildings be placed? And what is the city of Cambridge going to say? The Yard isn't going to get any bigger, although there is, admittedly still some vacant space...

Author: By Wilbur J. Bender, | Title: The College: A Megalopolis of IBM Machines? | 12/17/1955 | See Source »

Last week the excommunication was lifted; those to whom it had applied, it was announced, had made reparation. The congregation received the bishop's hopeful blessing, and the catechism class was declared reopened. But Pastor Labbe, though disclaiming any plans for integration beyond the classroom, was not sure peace had really descended among the rice fields. Said he: "We shall have to wait and see what the future brings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Excommunication in Erath | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...hope to supplement theoretical classroom instruction with practical work in industrial plants," Kronauer said. Both Kronauer and Van Vleck agreed that it was unlikely that the summer employment would be made compulsory, but Van Vleck said that "students will be encouraged to participate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engineering Students Will Get New Facilities | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...campuses. Students study the major problems of their time, e.g., the Atomic Revolution, modern man's political loyalties, bring to bear on them all that they have learned before. Essentially, says Dickey, this is "applied liberal arts, an effort to give our men a transition between the classroom and adulthood. A man spends four years with a book; after that he is inclined to rely on periodicals and newspapers for his information. There is entirely too little effort in undergraduate experience to relate the liberal arts to what a fellow lives with when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Civilized Competence | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...rescuing the underprivileged boy from across the tracks, and airily saving the town bank from failing during the Depression. Actress Jones seems to have a fine time portraying the exemplar of all the virtues. However, the town's citizens, all of whom seem to have been in her classroom at one time or another, are a bad argument for her teaching methods. Their jaws drop with astonishment whenever she uses a word of more than two syllables (which she does with lamentable frequency) and, collectively, they have scarcely enough sense to come in out of the rain unless teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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