Word: classroomful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SCHOOLTEACHER OFFERS SERVICES Have taught almost 14 years. Have degree of Master of Arts. . . . At present am administrator of six schools, serve as principal of one, have five periods in classroom daily, hunt up delinquent children, find clothing for the indigent, keep school busses running, raise money to carry on athletic program. . . . For past two years my salary has been lower in my town than that of any local mail clerk, mail carrier, business manager or administrator, preacher, and of certain filling station employees and retail clerks. . . . Assets: one car (runs best in garage); three suits clothes (when wearing...
This school, which enrolls 1,000 youngsters, meets for 50-minute periods including a five-minute sermon by the pastor. Its professional teaching staff includes a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a religious educationalist. Its curriculum is full and varied. Outside the classroom its children visit social service agencies, put on plays, write essays on Peace, study local politics...
...recited the oath of allegiance regularly since Miss De Lee left. Tightly clasping an American Beauty rose, Miss De Lee took the stand to deny that she was a Communist, quote from a teachers' syllabus in defense of her practice of admitting pet hens and rabbits to the classroom. Said she, "I asked Mr. Armstrong if he thought we were breathing fowl air." Superintendent George T. Fuggle of the Pompey Hollow School District put in a judicious word. The dismissal, Mr. Fuggle felt, was unjustified...
Terming the legislative authorization for pari-mutuel betting on horse and dog-racing as "politically and socially disturbing," the Harvard Teachers Record appearing today asks "wise leadership" in the classroom in the hope of "more stringent laws regulating or prohibiting lotteries, slot machines, and all games of chance...
...whole question provides a proper topic for the English classroom or for the social-science classroom. In contrast with the flippant attitude of the passing hour, there may issue among youths and among adults a conviction for restraint that harmonizes with the mood of an earlier and more rigid national attitude toward gambling...