Word: classroomful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of classroom honesty, we make the conservative estimate that at least half the Yale undergraduates are at this moment guilty of breaking the college rules during the present exam period, the penalty for which is expulsion, the description-cheating...
...certain type mind which is not so constituted as to profit largely by these values. But I am speaking here of the student of average ability in this department. Such an individual can hardly develop oral command of a foreign tongue, aside from the stereotyped phrases of classroom and textbook, in the time that is reasonably available for the study and practice of language in the secondary curriculum. (It is another matter with the student who is exceptionally gifted linguistically or who is in contact with the language outside of the classroom.) Now if there were no educative value...
...business experience are approved. It will be necessary to take part in the discussions in order to obtain the full benefit from the work, and therefore it is essential that applicants should have such experience and background as will enable them to take an active part in the classroom debates. In each course the number will be limited to a figure which, in the experience of the school and of the instructors, seems most desirable from the viewpoint of the student...
...reply, the irate Dean flayed the publication's "flagrant violation of a longestablished academic privilege-the inviolability of the classroom." Said he: "The document quoted is a condensation of a 25-page lecture and necessarily lacks the clarity of the lecture. . . . The words are true. ... I believe in all efforts directed toward perpetual peace, [but] I fear the efforts will all prove ineffectual...
...Professorship of English Literature. As editor and teacher, the passing years have found him well-liked in his success; as professor emeritus, future years will find him well-remembered in his retirement. A scholar as well as a speaker often inspiring, he brought the best of himself into the classroom, and left the touch of his kindly, whimsical personality upon the great men of letters whom he interpreted. His students will remember him for the human quality which he never sacrificed for pedagogical catch-word or scholastic obscurity, for his ability to give life to past greatness...