Word: classroomful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morning sessions in the course will be devoted to classroom instruction on the theories of modern football and on the necessities for successful coaching. In the afternoons drills will be held at the William E. Nickerson Recreation Field, Weston. The students will learn the fundamentals of passing, kicking, ball carrying, and line play...
...that in some sections there are as many as fifty and the average number is twenty-five or over. In a section of over twenty-five, adequate discussion and frequent recitation are virtually impossible. At a time when the student is making the transition from the highly individual classroom instruction of prep school to the personal contact afforded by the tutorial conferences, he is apt to be lost in the shuffle and consequently to have difficulty in apprehending the aims of tutorial work and the best methods for obtaining from it the maximum of value...
There is then special significance in classroom work in the Freshman year, and in order that the first year men may receive more individual instruction, economic factors, at least in the introductory courses, should be overlooked to the extent of cutting down the larger sections so that none have a roll of more than twenty-five. By more frequent conferences with the advisers and the diminishing of the size of the sections more adequate preparation for an intelligent use of the tutorial system is assured...
...Theodor von Karman, famed Hungarian aerodynamicist in charge of aeronautics research at California Tech; Willis Ray Gregg, new No. 1 U. S. Weatherman; Elmer A. Sperry of gyroscope fame and many and many another bigwig. There they were, all day long, chilling their bones and cramping their fundaments in classroom chairs, because it was the second annual meeting of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences. Prior to the business meeting at which Treasurer Lawrance had made his report, they had taken part in learned discussion of problems in meteorology, radio, metallurgy, aerodynamics, fuels, engines, instruments...
...microphone entered Emerson Hall yesterday as Harvard started a series of lectures broadcast direct for the first time from the classroom. Milman Parry, assistant professor of Greek, spoke one hour on "Sophocles" in Emerson D yesterday afternoon over the Yankee network. "Great Authors" is the name of the series which will be broadcast Tuesday afternoons at 4.30 o'clock over WNAC...