Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only those who have shown some definite desire for further intellectual development. And intimate work with a faculty devoted to teaching is the reward of the serious students. Like hundreds of other school catalogues, Amherst's contains a sentence stating: "The real life of the College centers in he classroom, in the relationship between teachers and learners." Distinctive about Amherst's statement is the fact that it is to a large extent true...
...educational program of Channel Five, which will probably be WMBT-TV if Massachusetts Bay Telecasters gets control of it, will include daily-half-hour programs in a "Tele-College" series. These programs would be classroom courses designed for both high school students and persons working toward university extension degrees...
...FORCE program is also big (125,000 students in 188 colleges, 1,400 officer-instructors), but operates on a relatively low budget ($13 million). It has been harassed by cutbacks and constant changes in curriculum. The Air Force gives no flight training to undergraduates, instead concentrates on classroom instruction (aerodynamics, weather, Air Force administration), devotes 99 hours to the role of air power and its history. Started in 1947 as a program for ground specialists, the A.F.R.O.T.C. was built up by 1951 to turn out 27,000 officers a year for a 143-wing Air Force. With authorized strength down...
...hardened militarist. Colonel Dupuy's recent proposals, smoothed out by a subcommittee of the Committee on Educational Policy, approach the old ROTC problem from a fresh angle, however. In recent years, Shannon Hall has been trying unsuccessfully to take the middle ground between intellectual and practical instruction in the classroom. But because there are certain basic principles of soldiering which are less than stimulating intellectually, yet must be mastered, the level of ROTC classes has dropped below the norm for the College...
...went through all the motions of singing-but no sound came forth. When the puzzled mother asked for an explanation, her daughter said that she was practicing for her part as a "goldfish" in the music festival. Goldfish, it developed, are the nonmusical children who stand with their classroom choirs and silently mouth words while the really talented singers do the competing, unhampered by croaks, voice breaks, sour notes or unpremeditated riffs...