Word: classroom
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...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "To Be a Man" chronicles student life at Yale, from the tables down at Mory's to a classroom lecture in evolution. Repeat...
...Modern Man. The most common classroom use of the computer is to take over time-consuming drill in the basic definitions and concepts of a discipline. At the two-year-old Irvine campus of the University of California, which bills itself as "designed for the modern man," 17 courses are partly taught by computer. In Geography I, for example, the machine leads students through such questions as: "How does geography's focus differ from that of the other social sciences?" (Correct answer: "Geography is interested in the spatial impact of all categories of human behavior, whereas other disciplines tend...
...school will build a $3.2 million dormitory-classroom complex for its Advanced Management Program, now located in cramped quarters in Hamilton Hall. The International Teachers Program, which the school put on a permanent basis a year ago, will receive a similar $600,000 home...
...educators today also see sound psychological reasons for mixed classes. "The mix tones up the give and take, furnishes a broader view," argues Webster College Vice President Joseph Kelly. Vassar's Simpson notes that "the more diversity in background and point of view that comes out in a classroom, the richer the experience." Catholic educators, who have traditionally been wary about the "dangers" of too much sexual intermingling in classes, also concede that coeducation provides students with a sounder basis for marriage. The mixed campus provides a meshing of intellectual and social life in which the boys find, says...
Although they are badly outnumbered, defenders of the single-sex campus maintain that girls are more apt to display their intellectual talents when they are not also vying for dates in the classroom, that either sex concentrates more intently on classwork when they are separated, that the separate campus is more relaxed and casual in dress. Some also contend that a coed curriculum tends to overemphasize masculine vocational interests. After competing with men in a coed college, claims President Paul Weaver of Ohio's all-girl Lake Erie College, a girl is likely to become "dissatisfied in the role...