Word: classrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio education" covers a multitude of broadcasting activities, anything from a concert by the Philharmonic Symphony Society to a classroom lecture by a geology professor. Although over 40% of the programs on the major radio networks are labeled "educational," most schoolmen feel dissatisfied and frustrated over the achievements of radio as an educational medium. Last week as 18 organizations composed of educators and radiomen met for a Conference on Educational Broadcasting, called by the U. S. Office of Education and the Federal Communications Commission at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, this feeling was fully and freely aired...
...further grievance of the Conference was that few radio programs are suitable for the classroom. CBS contributes the only program specifically for schoolhouse radios, the "American School of the Air." Broadcast on 122 afternoons during the year from 2:15 to 2:45, the school is planned for three age groups: six to nine, nine to twelve, twelve and over. The American history course this year is dramatizing the past of eleven U. S. cities. The Science Club broadcasts simple experiments to be performed by the listener, such as opening and inspecting a dry cell battery or observing goldfish...
Ward's sends out no expeditions. It has lists of 11,000 collectors to whom it writes for needed items. Free-lancers send in material on speculation. Earthworms one foot long-for classroom dissection-come from Michigan, huge bullfrogs from Louisiana. France ships bushels of its edible snails, which are bigger than U. S. snails and therefore better for anatomical instruction. Rattlesnakes from Texas sometimes arrive alive, are slain on the premises. Cats are bought in the neighborhood, drowned and embalmed, but Ward's does not advertise for cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years...
...Classroom contacts, the tutorial system, and the limp, faculty-inspired gatherings are starvation rations for the man who is really interested in his subject. Men who want to make a career out of their field of concentration and men who are not satisfied with the regular routine of assignments need an organization similar to the Council of Government Concentrators. In these panel discussions the big men of the department carry on a sort of free debate on various topics of general interest, concerning either college affairs or national and international problems. These meetings have immense potentialities, particularly the development...
...refused to join a fraternity because the initiation required him to experience a paddling. This and other breaches of etiquette cost him campus prestige which, however, he regained in time to be the last man tapped for Skull & Bones, Yale's most prized undergraduate honor. In the classroom, Kelley's conduct is characteristic. He has had an average of 84 during his four years, will undoubtedly be elected to Phi Beta Kappa this year. His career could not have been more expertly designed to get him a good job after graduation if it had been arranged by Metro...