Word: classroomful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studies with more energy and purpose. Well-geared is Vassar's administration to the current trend toward independent study. Any student may now get extra credit for reading, research or writing done in spare time or summer vacation, and high-ranking juniors and seniors are freed from most classroom requirements. Some critics think the papers in Vassar's Journal of Undergraduate Studies stand up well beside many a graduate thesis. That they take to heart their responsibilities under the New Deal and the New Leisure, Vassar girls have proven by approximately doubling their enrollment in economics & social studies...
...York City one morning two years ago Mrs. Ida Weiner, a public school teacher, went to her classroom, taught her moppets as usual. When she had finished, she proceeded to a hospital, bore a child. For this performance the City's Board of Education, whose bylaws require a teacher to begin a two-year, payless furlough as soon as she is aware of pregnancy, last week fined Teacher Weiner $300. Teacher Weiner's reported defense: not until the baby arrived did she know that she was pregnant...
...teacher goes through the classroom with a Sight Meter in her hand. Its quivering needle shows in footcandles the amount of light in the room. If in any spot it registers less than ten footcandles the teacher should raise the shades or turn on the electric lights...
...failure to succor them. George Frederick Zook's swansong as U. S. Commissioner of Education was a harsh honk at President Roosevelt for blocking the gift of $75,000,000 which he was sure the House wanted to make to schools. Education's submerged "masses," the classroom teachers complained that many a city was dismissing them wholesale in favor of young, cheap substitutes...
...winners of the appointments to the Institution will be brought to Washington for the months of February and March, 1935, for a practical experience designed to supplement classroom study of political science in the preparation for leadership in public affairs. Each student will serve as an apprentice to a government official, receiving instruction at the same time. The Institution is a nonpartisan, privately financed organization. The American political arena is desperately in need of young men specially trained for governmental positions and free from entangling alliances with party bosses and machines...