Word: classroomful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlightening information. Research revealed 117 wads under the 72 seats in the center section. First prize went to a seat with 13 wads; one with 11 ran a close second. The entire 330 seats harbored 322 gobs. Calculated to represent a frankly insignificant average, 88% of the College's classroom seats must hide wads of some sort...
...speaker also praised the Union for its work in combating war, bringing social issues into the classroom, and rousing labour interest...
...their studies, the afternoon exhibiting their wares to the coach. Those who showed up well in both tests would be offered $400 scholarships paid by alumni subscription, renewable on good behavior. In that way, thought Historian Reynolds, Wisconsin could get athletes able to stand the strain of classroom work later...
...sofabed which he described in letters home as a "really genteel article of furniture." Year later he was eager to accept a call back to Williams to teach moral philosophy and rhetoric. With anatomy and physiology classes as well, he decided that he must have a manikin for classroom demonstrations. He bought the manikin himself for $600, worked off the debt by packing it behind him in his sleigh, circulating over the Massachusetts countryside- to deliver public lectures on human anatomy...
...efficient and sensible administrator, Harvard's Conant has tried to attract able scholars to Harvard and keep them there by easing classroom and tutorial work, setting up "roving professorships" to cut across departmental lines. As a man who spent 20 fruitful years in the laboratory without closing his eyes to the classics, Dr. Conant has small patience with those who complain that research must not be overemphasized at the expense of teaching. To that charge he likes to cite the account by Edward Gibbon of the Greek scholars in loth Century Constantinople...