Word: classroom
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Thus John Gardner, the protean former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, explained the mood in which last summer he founded a citizens' lobby called Common Cause (TIME, Aug. 10). From the start, Gardner, 58, gave Common Cause uncommonly experienced leadership, since he is a familiar of classroom and board room as well as Government. His mission is to reform the American system from within, and in Common Cause's six short months since parturition, the response, he says, has been "simply astonishing...
...With projects during the year, students can tie in field work with their classroom experience, if what they are learning in classes is relevant," she added...
...warm enough," said Schneider after a few bars, and he was not referring to Carnegie's central heating. That afternoon, they were all downtown at The New School rehearsing chamber music. "Your pizzicato sounds terribly dry," complained Violinist Felix Galimir to a group in one classroom. In another room Cellist Mischa Schneider (Alexander's brother) exhorted, "Sing, sing, sing...
...implications of the Sub-committee's action are indeed unsettling. First of all, Harvard is saying that learning takes place only within the classroom. The Dean of Students' self-acknowledged "crackdown" on the independent study program and the FAS's continued refusal to offer course credit for field work discourages student initiative, stifles imagination and blatantly manifests Harvard's intellectual elitism. Perhaps the Administration's policies are justified IF we do, in fact, have the greatest collection of scholars the world has ever known and IF they can and do transmit their knowledge on to us. But some...
...Medical School announced yesterday that it will build a new classroom building-its first since 1906-with the help of a $2,750,000 challenge grant from the Seeley G. Mudd Fund of Los Angeles...