Word: classroomful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood octopus, through the good offices of the National Council of Teachers of English, has enfolded yet another phase of national life in its ubiquitous grasp. The Council has decided that by attending selected current movies, and by subsequently discussing them in the classroom, school-children can be taught to judge and appreciate the cinema. This opinion is new being tested experimentally on 10,000 children; later, if all goes well, 6,000,000 senior and junior high school students of the country will be allowed to exercise their critical faculties in this manner. The teachers hope for the development...
...Forum will, of course, be a student's organization. Although not intended as a direct aid to classroom work, it cannot, however, fail to bear upon it, since the discussions will afford training in economic thinking, and many of the topics will undoubtedly be taken up in various courses as well as in the Divisional Examinations. However, these results will be indirect. The primary purpose of the Forum is to give the Students living outside the Houses an opportunity to become articulate on economic ideas and problems...
...Regular Army officer will inspect rooms to see that every article is in its designated place and that the room is absolutely free of dust and dirt. Then class call sounds and the cadets form in sections according to academic rank in that subject and march to the classroom...
...three-fifteen half of the Corps marches to athletics and the other half goes to drill. During the fall and spring, the drill consists of "Squads East and West" followed by dress parade at four-thirty. During the winter the drill is a classroom study of various training regulations...
Harvard men, undoubtedly aided by men who never saw the inside of a Harvard classroom, rallied in time to save one remaining upright at the steel-stand end of the field. The fight lasted for nearly as hour, with Harvard victorious in the lumber business if not in the pig skin industry that...