Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classroom he was an enthusiastic, if sometimes overbearing, student. He sinned in the eyes of his classmates by taking to great an interest in his instructor's words, and often compounded the in by taking issue with them, which "seemed barbaric to young men who considered college mere exposure to thought, and who had no serious apprehension of contaminations," as a biographer explained...
...days gone by," recalls clean-shaven Professor Sato, "a [Japanese] professor wore a fine mustache, carried a cane, and commuted directly from the geisha house to the classroom in a jinricksha . . . Now, after 31 years of teaching. I return home with a monthly salary of 36,150 yen [$100]. I give the envelope to my wife . . . Usually, this sort of conversation ensues...
Amenity Missing. In Gadsden, Ala., Farmer Miles Johnson explained to the judge why he did not send his two children, aged nine and eleven, to school: they both take snuff, and there is no place in the classroom to spit...
...There is more to teaching at a university like Harvard than classroom work itself," he emphasized. An equally important factor is "research," Pusey said; but "learning" would perhaps be a more appropriate word for that aspect of a college teacher's function," he added...
Dupuy said last night that in his mind "the more civilians brought into the ROTC classroom the better." He said the proposal would expand the current policy of guest lecturers into a more definite program. Military history, geographic foundations of power, and military psychology were courses Dupuy cited as readily integrated into ROTC programs...