Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...degree of church control and the number of compulsory religious courses to the "image of the college in the community." However inviting to subjective judgment, the test clearly barred grants to the two Catholic colleges, one of which planned to put crucifixes in each new, tax-paid science classroom. Western Maryland's Methodism was more elusive, but clear church control barred that grant too. Only Hood (U.C.C.) passed the test, because, among other open-minded policies, it welcomes teachers and students of all faiths-Jews, Catholics, Lutherans, Quakers and agnostics, to name...
...Through friends in Paris, she met Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, a pair of Frenchwomen who were working on a cookbook for Americans. In no time they decided to open a cooking school, L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes, using the Childs' spacious Left Bank kitchen as their classroom. At $5 a lesson, the school fees barely covered the cost of the food. But the practical experience of teaching proved invaluable, for by now Julia-had not only been taken on the team as translator, but also, with Simone Beck, was making the major creative contributions to the cookbook...
...silent, black slime. From nearby pits, miners rushed to the scene and tore at the debris with their hands, picks and shovels. Mothers struggled up to their waists in the mud and sludge, calling out for their children. Mrs. Pauline Evans, a 27-year-old housewife, climbed through a classroom window with a nurse and found a dozen children screaming in panic. "In another classroom, we could hear the voice of a little girl," she said. "But we could not get to her because there were other children trapped near by and if we moved anything, it would have collapsed...
...soon as the young people are through on the farms the schools will presumably be ready to reopen; how the young Chinese succeed in the classroom will in the long run be more important than their successes on the streets. According to a number of reports, only those who can prove their Party loyalty will be able to enter a university. Course catalogues will be cut to the bone at the expense of the "non-essential" humanities and students will spend six months out of every year in planned projects on the farms or in factories...
Note-Takinq Subordinates. Growth of the shadow colleges, professors say, represents a reaction to the stiff formality of the conventional classroom, the aridity and irrelevance-in the student's view-of much of the official curriculum. As the manifesto of Princeton's experimental college puts it, "the teacher becomes the grade-dispensing authority and the student a note-taking subordinate...