Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three dimensional films are an optical disillusion. In their present form, the Tri-Opticon Pictures premiered in New England last week are more suited to a science classroom that a Boston theatre. Two of the five shorts are cartoons-abstractions of lines and triangles which seem to drift from the screen to an audience squinting through special gray-tinted glasses. The effect is startling and impressive for a few minutes, then with a succession of dull and technically imperfect pictures, the wondering eye becomes increasingly strained. In a film of the Black Swan ballet, where leg movements are only...
...Berkeley's Emerson Grammar School, he was already reading Russian authors, and during study periods, he would spring from his seat to pace about the rear of the classroom, a book in his hand. He never cared what his classmates thought of him, or how he looked, or whether his shoelaces were tied. Nor does he care today: his tie is frequently askew, his suits (he has four) slightly wrinkled. He lapped up mythology ("Vulcan," he wrote at eleven, "was the god of goldsmiths, ironsmiths, leadsmiths, silversmiths, coppersmiths, brassmiths and Mrs. Smiths-there...
Unlike many football stars, Miller was as good in the classroom as on the field, graduated from Notre Dame ('29) with a high scholastic average. Miller went home to Milwaukee, where his grandfather Frederick, a German-born master brewer, built his brewery in 1855. At a time when many other brewers made dark, strong beers, old Fred began making a light, dry Pilsner-type aimed at the quality trade and billed as "the champagne of bottled beer." After his death, a succession of descendants ran the brewery. Young Fred's family owned enough stock for him to become...
...express his views is respected--and that the right of Harvard students to hear these divergent views is also respected." Even the stuffy Alumni Bulletin was moved to praise, saying "the special significance of Mr. Buck's address was in his refusal to limit intellectual freedom to the classroom...
...College of Pharmacy & Chemistry, refused to join fellow students in a walkout. She had a good reason: the dean of the pharmacy school, against whom they were striking, is her brother-in-law. When the strike was over, a few of Siham's classmates cornered her in a classroom and berated her. She fled in tears. Soon she had reinforcements. Gallant students from the law school, enlisting in Siham's cause, pummeled her tormentors. That sent the pharmacy students out on strike again...