Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progress for one year. Last May Associate Editor Ed Magnuson (Minnesota, '50, magna cum laude) and Senior Editor William Forbis (Montana, '39, cum laude) went their separate ways visiting campuses and sitting in on lectures across the U.S. to learn what was afoot in the college classroom...
Cigarette in one hand, coffee cup in the other, Athos strolls into the center of his classroom's U-shaped rows of seats, and begins to toss out pointed questions in a disarmingly gentle voice. He poses, for example, the problem of how three older men feel when a boss promotes a youngster over them. To a student who argues that feelings don't matter, only success does, Athos says crisply: "I would like to suggest that you talk an ideology that you do not practice?even in this classroom." To another: "You think that the boss knows what...
...Classroom Dialogist. Claremont Men's College, near Los Angeles, has only 626 students, but it also has Bronx-born Political Scientist Martin Dia mond, 46, who has turned an offbeat set of experiences into a classroom asset. He learned how to intrigue a crowd and squelch hecklers while plugging socialist causes on New York street corners when he was the age of his students...
...school was inaugurated by examination period in January. But even exams could not dull the pleasure that I felt at having my own desk in a large airy classroom with what seemed to be miles of black-board space, or my students' pleasure at having separate desks and a large library. Most important, though, was the feeling that the school was ours. Not only were we the students and teachers--we were the builders...
Epps went to a Catholic high school and then received his A.B. at Talladega College in Alabama. His academic interests are as diverse as his activities outside the classroom. He studied religion at Harvard, is presently a teaching fellow in Middle Eastern Studies, and, at twenty-seven, soon plans to finish his Ph.D. in Social Relations...