Word: classroomful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is extremely harmful and injurious to the undergraduate's attitude towards his work. The attitude of the college being well known, the students make clandestine use of these abridgements and naturally the abridgements themselves are seldom seen in the classroom...
...spent seven or eight minutes surging through stifling hallways and down creaking stairs from a second story classroom to the single entrance can help considering the possibility of a fire. It is not as if the hall were used as a dormitory, such as Hollis or Stoughton, in which the stairs and hallaways would be frequented by students singly or in pairs. At the rush hours about eleven, twelve, and one o'clock Harvard Hall literally bulges with scores of students flowing at a maddeningly leisurely rate along the hall on the second stairway, and spilling out of the lone...
These companion anthologies from the Oxford University Press are prefaced by their editors thus: ". . . We have treated ourselves to many old friends and private prejudices. And this is as it should be. An anthologist, however austere he may prefer to be, however much under the shadow of the classroom, is unlucky if, at the end of his labors, he cannot say, A poor unfavored thing, sir, but mine own." Heaven may forgive his indecision and the falterings of his taste provided he has kept the ardor of his heart...
...Jonathan Brewster Bingham, youngest of the seven sons of Connecticut's onetime Senator Hiram Bingham, took rich Yale at its word. Announcing that it would sponsor the non-credit course, the News persuaded a professor to lecture on his own time, hired a fraternity house for a classroom, undertook to pay all expenses, including a taxi to & from class for the professor and one assistant...
LIKE Fred MacMurray, another successful ex-ex- coollegian in Hollywood, Pinky Tomlin got a fair start at the higher learning, but tunes and rhythms kept running through his head in the classroom, and he ended up by having only a fraternity shingle to show for his academic days. MacMurray and Tomlin now have about $1000,000 apiece--a very disconcerting fact to Ph.D. a who stuck it out--and didn't have any tones to plague them...