Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee will contact the school of each teacher nominated to obtain reports on which to judge the candidates. The awards will be presented by President Pusey at Commencement and will be based on class-room excellence, not guidance given outside the classroom...
...improved its hearing manners. . . . Yet it continues to be carelees or unscrupulous in vilifying its critics." It continues, "Under these circumstances, we find it understandable, though deplorable, that many teachers, in the colleges and universities, as well as in the public schools, have grown timid about stating, even for classroom discussion, ideas which someone later might interpret as subversive...
Lipson emphasized yesterday the importance of conversation and "getting the students to speak up." Beginning with the third week of the course, no English is permitted in the classroom, and he often employs such devices as insulting or ridiculing his students to provoke them into responding in Russian. The classes usually end in a song-fest in Russian, with Lipson accompanying the students on the guitar...
...Wichita, Kans., student members of the society are trained to tell their cell leader of any "Communist" influence noted in classroom lectures; by phone, parents belabor the offending teacher and his principal for apologies and admissions of guilt. A Wichita businessman who planned to make a modest contribution to a University of Wichita fund was dissuaded because members of the society were demanding that certain professors and books be thrown out. "My business would be wrecked," said he, "if those people got on the phone and kept on yelling that I am a Communist because I give money...
What can industry do to fill it? A number of companies have tried apprentice programs. They put high school graduates through paid training programs in their shops and send them to school several hours a week for classroom studies. Companies such as General Electric. General Motors, Ford and International Harvester try to get the top graduates from high schools and give them an engineering education that comes close to what they would get in college. Entrance requirements are high; Harvester says it turns down nine out of ten who apply. Applicants who are admitted get a four-year course...