Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government column inched through town, dozens of men were killed by rebels firing from windows and rooftops. Not until tanks blasted Puerto Cabello's hospital at point-blank range did its rebel defenders give up; students holed up in the high school fought on bitterly. In one classroom, Betancourt's troops found a huge portrait of Fidel Castro. They carried it outside, shredded it with their burp guns, and got on with the bloody, block-by-block fighting...
...even greater problem is presented space. The University's classroom already bursting at the seams at the hours. Rooms in the top of the Union pressed into service, and more, and men have to be told that they can't hold at these hours...
American university presidents are a strange breed. Stranger still are American university presidents-emeriti, a group that has variously found its way back to the classroom, into public office, into business, or back to the farm. Some presidents-emeriti become Experts on American Education and write reports, usually thanks to the Carnegie Foundation. Harold W. Dodds, President of Princeton University from 1933 to 1957, has accomplished the ultimate: he has come up with a report for the Carnegie Foundation on college presidents...
...chairman of Fieldston's social-studies department. Scott spends only two hours a day in the classroom-allowing him to pursue his own scholarly research, which in turn he shares with students. He calls textbooks "mere dry husks of facts," insists that youngsters grapple firsthand with the issues and ideas of history. To convey "the human meaning-how people thought and suffered.'' Scott supplies documents that only scholars normally see. All it takes, he says, is a Mimeograph machine, the instrument "that gives back a student's heritage." As Scott sees it ("Historians have to take...
...Deal papers. Equally impressive to colleagues is his classroom performance -"better than any professor I had in college," said a visiting headmaster. In clipped tones, Scott never stops pushing his students into the past. He even twangs the guitar and sings obscure colonial tunes. He drives himself so hard by day, says one teacher, that "at night the man is as limp as an old circus balloon." In theory, concentrating on relatively few events should force Scott to shortchange his students on others. In practice, Scott does not neglect "facts." His students do very well on College Board tests...