Word: classroomful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distinguished in appearance, impressive in speech, and Olympian in manner, he has awed class after class when he expounds the intricacies of Elizabethan interpretations, or the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf. Today ends his forty-eighth year of classroom teaching, and in the fourth and succeeding centuries of Harvard's existence, today will be remembered for that reason alone...
Today then, as Kitty walks slowly down the aisle of his classroom, with his worn copy of "The Winter's Tale", defending Leontes from the charge of being a "bitter, jealous tyrant", the last of Harvard's great lights will be dimmed and Professor Kittredge will step into Harvard history...
...celebrated classroom caitiff like Peck's Bad Boy or Huckleberry Finn were to cut his swath through a U. S. school today, he would probably get off with a restrained scolding. In most of the nation's schools, use of the corrective rod is prohibited by law. New York City. Chicago, Wilmington and Washington forbid all forms of corporal punishment in their educational systems. Erring moppets in Minneapolis, Omaha. El Paso and Providence may be chastised only with parental consent. Teachers in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. are not allowed to pull pupils' ears. In New Orleans...
...kaleidoscopic use of visiting professors is a grave defect, although occasional appointments may introduce a little leaven because of new viewpoints. These men take some time to become accustomed to their classroom work and can never bear their full share of responsibility. They lend anything but stability to the department and can contribute little in the way of concerted effort in directing the student's course of study. The sooner this transitional stage of using visiting professors extensively runs its course, the sooner a severe handicap to better organization and productivity will be demolished...
With Temple, President Beury had done better. Raising $6,000,000, he built a twelve-story classroom building, a student centre, a new plant for the school of medicine. He acquired a school of chiropody. In 1932 he signed up Glen Scobey ("Pop") Warner to coach football in a new stadium whose 40,000 seats have since been faithfully filled...