Word: classroomful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contributions to the literature of his chosen field were important, and growing, his force as a classroom teacher was great, and beyond these merits there was the weight of his position as a pioneer in the experiment of tutoring. A host of undergraduates had derived from him a sympathetic understanding of philosophical problems during his service of more than a decade as a tutor...
...press and peaceful assembly; the violent repression of working class struggles"; to expose and fight against "a fascist reign by capitalist interests"; to defend and popularize the U. S. S. R. and its plan; to fight against racial and national discrimination; to fight for academic freedom, both in the classroom and out; and to support the demands for government unemployment insurance...
...enlargement of his ideas. We breach a subject and test it with our preconceived surmise; we guide the image around our minds, contemplating it from all angles; and after much cogitation we conclude that it is a worthy conception, or no. This process, not solely of the classroom, molds our laws in every relationship. There is no doubt but that much mental pabulum has been left shrouded, only to smother, in the minds of men, material that might have had illimitable influence...
Published oy a subsidiary corporation of The Parents' Magazine, the new sheet is pocket-size, concisely written. Unlike other educational magazines it deals not with the theories of pedagogy but with the practical mechanics of school life-the choice of teachers, health room designs, classroom cinemas, luncheon menus, budgets, proper desks, textbook purchases et al. Like some 225 other U. S. publications, it has a "controlled circulation," will be sent gratis, every month except July and August, to 50,000 school superintendents, principals, architects. All others must subscribe at $2 per year. School Management, unlike most educational magazines, pays...
...track his pet subjects to their sources. The innovation is going too far if, as the administrative announcement implies. Freshman courses are also to suspend class-meetings for those two weeks. The essentially unorganized and undirected work of the reading period can do little but lose valuable classroom time in the elementary and survey courses which make up the Freshman curriculum. First year men, moreover, are having a difficult enough time in acclimating themselves to the college lecture method without suddenly being subjected to a system so radically different from that of the preparatory school...