Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Classroom and office space is a somewhat less serious problem, but expansion would be necessary if the University grew even a little. "If someone asked me today for an office, I'd be at ends to help him," reports Buck, who also heads a faculty committee concerned with space allocation. One of the recently acquired New Haven school buildings may very probably be used to solve some of these needs, acording to C. H. Sanford, University Business Manager...
...forum, open to the public, was devised entirely by students to supplement ROTC classroom study and to help reduce student misunderstanding of military life...
...Eisenhower announced in February, 1953, and the nation's educators promptly chalked up an "A" for homework well-done. But the new administration evidently forgot its important assignment, for now, nearly three years later, the critical need for elementary and secondary school buildings and teachers remains almost totally ignored. Classroom and teacher shortages still force over 700,000 students to attend school only half-day, and 6 million children study, in fire-traps. The picture is not pleasant. The need for more schools and teachers has brought from the White House one major plan: a national conference which will convene...
...would be individual departments housed in separate buildings. But in this new type of secondary school, Lopez said, students would travel from building to building, "losing much of their individuality in the process." Instead, he proposed adoption of the "group type" school, where the students would remain in one classroom and teachers bring necessary facilities to them. In this manner, he continued, students learn from each other and more fully develop their individuality...
...paradoxes of Muir's life, which has seen the boy who quit school at the age of 14 eventually become a distinguished professor. Thinking back to his early years, Muir recalls: "I disliked school from the start... with its smell of ink, chalk, slate, corduroy, and varnish. The classroom made me feel as if my head were stuffed with hot cotton-wool...