Word: classroomful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regulations at present are a petty and annoying hinderance to the formation and continuance of friendships which men make with students resident in other Houses. The contacts made in the classroom and in extra-curricular activities most easily ripen into friendship over the iced-tea and the Boston baked beans. The House Plan recognizes that this is true, and throws men together for their meals that they may learn to know one another. The system now in operation, however, in effect limits the influence to the individual Houses, and may, as the House Plan succeeds, result in severing the ties...
...garden. President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Society, he is an authority on the Populist uprising of the 1890's. With his desire to do more teaching most of his old students sympathize. He has a reputation of never letting a student go to sleep in his classroom, boasts of the athletes he has "reformed" into keen students...
...Film Foundation-non-profit-making producer and distributor of educational films-was announced last fortnight in Manhattan. President of I. F. F. is President Wallace Walter Atwood of Clark University. Purpose of I. F. F. is to centralize production and distribution of educational films. It will manufacture three types: classroom films, noncurriculum films for auditorium use, a few special films, like The Cry of the World, for general distribution. Most of the personnel of I. F. F., including President Atwood, were previously connected with the visual education department of Fox which, after spending $300,000 on educational films...
...abolished by Lieut.-Colonel Enoch Barton Garey, only military head St. John's ever had. Lieut-Colonel Garey resigned in 1929. Douglas Gordon became acting president last May. Since then he has introduced partial substitution of theses for course examinations, tutorial conferences and individual reading for classroom work...
Furious, flushing darkly, the Comrade Student slammed shut her notebook, jumped up and left the classroom. Whispered another student to the cameraman whose importance instantly collapsed. "Get out. Comrade Photographer, and get out quick! Don't you know she's Mrs. Stalin...