Word: classroomful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerning his lectures for the coming half-year, the French geographer said that the planned to give his classroom lectures in English, since he doubted the capacity of the general run of students to understand the technical French required for lectures on geography. His public afternoon lectures, which will be given weekly in the institute of Geographical Research, will, however, be given in French. His first lecture will be at 4.30, February 11 on "Les Origines de L'Agriculture Francaise...
...Communist Party? (2) Do you advocate the violent overthrow of the United States Government? (3) Do you lean toward the left in favor of constitutional change? (4) Do you believe in swearing allegiance to the American flag? (5) Do you believe communism should be studied in the classroom? (6) What do you think of the Russian experiment? (7) Were you ever invited to take a trip to Russia at the expense of the Communist party...
...from Mlle de Maupin, Mary convinces her righteous grandmother that Miss Dobie is in love with Miss Wright, that she has witnessed grave misbehavior. The grandmother ruins the school by spreading the tale. The accused young women ruin themselves by pressing an unsuccessful libel suit. Alone in a deserted classroom, Karen Wright (Katherine Emery) and Martha Dobie (Anne Revere) are faced with a hopeless future. In her morbidity, Martha reveals that although Karen is innocent, she, Martha, has not been entirely guiltless in intent. She goes to her room. There is a gunshot. In one of the soundest bits...
...fulfills them, whereas Harvard seems undecided as to what its functions should be. In preparing for livelihood rather than life it loads the undergraduate with course work, assignments, and examinations, in the attempt to teach him a variety of subjects. Very little energy is left for association outside the classroom another name for this lack of energy is indifference. Despite its superficiality, the ordinary Cambridge society which forms itself round any interest from the ballet to archery, not forgetting politics and chemistry, performs one of the most valuable functions of university life. I believe the Houses are developing from...
Doubtless the University official who has the job of seeing that there is a classroom for every class is occasionally hard-put to find space for a group of eager students "to grow in wisdom." Only thus can one explain Government 8 meeting in the Biology Lab. But shades of Der Fuehrer! this has gone too far. A German A section meets in the Semitic Museum...