Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Continental Classroom (NBC, 6:30-7:30 a.m.). The new semester starts. First lecture: the University of California's Nobel Laureate Dr. Glenn Seaborg on The TV Chemistry Course. Color...
...Warded off a third housing-bill veto by accepting White House direction on where to make further cuts (the $50 million college-classroom program, a spread-out in the spending of $650 million urban renewal funds), but retained some of the Ike-disliked features (a $50 million program to build homes for the elderly, extra public-housing starts) in a $1 billion bill that is still high ($200 million above budget) but less than half its original Democratic size...
...view implies a fairly elitist view of knowledge and philosophy; but there is agreement by both Demos and Dawson that the student who is qualified to come to Harvard is able, in Demos's phrase, to have "his religion buffeted by the winds of reason." The split between classroom exposition and classroom conversion is only one factor contributing to the College relativism. Demos says that in Harvard's case "Veritas means that we are committed to nothing." Yet even those members of the University who are "committed men," who, like Demos, do believe, often see the critical examination of ideas...
...stimulate thought on the Big Questions--after-life, the meaning of existence, man's role in the universe. The College, however, does not attempt to answer these Questions; teachers, in Raphael Demos's phrase, may lead students into the wood and leave them to find their own way out. Classroom discussion and reading, plus contact with other faiths, definitely bolster religious questioning. For many Protestants, the result may be temporary agnosticism, but for others it may bring renewed understanding built on a previously existing basis of faith...
...school construction. Eighty percent of school bonds requested this year were voted in, compared to 73% last year. But the quality of a school depends most upon the quality of its teachers, and such is the character even of devoted pedagogues that money attracts them. Last year the average classroom teacher's salary in Mississippi was $3,070; in only 13 states was it above $5,000. One out of every ten teachers quits yearly. There is no problem in wealthy Scarsdale, N.Y., which can spend $865 a year per student. But Georgia ($208) is another matter...