Word: classrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Education Association. One candidate, Caroline Woodruff of Vermont, arrived in Denver for the N. E. A. convention with a carload of maple syrup. Another candidate's followers rolled into Denver on a noisy "Annie Carlton Woodward Special" from Massachusetts. Annie Carlton Woodward's demagogic platform: "Elect a Classroom Teacher." Candidates Woodruff, Woodward and Agnes Samuelson of Iowa settled down to a week of strategic breakfasts, luncheons, teas...
...might well be trying to find a standard which will give Harvard insurance against the declining ability of brilliant teachers as they advance past 40 in the classroom. He does believe that any man on the Faculty of Arts must show that he can talk constructively on something. Certainly critical comment on his subject such as essays, books, reviews, etc., will keep him alive to his subject, not research in the true sense of the term. The difference between this and the science standard is difficult to understand, but fundamental...
Heavily endowed institutions can well afford to start endowment funds, even in such times as these. But colleges which are having all they can do to continue their classroom programs and to meet the faculty pay roll have neither the time not the business to carry on crusade in the field of athletics. Until the time comes when "tremendous football gate receipts" are once again realized, reforms for their abolishment can be postponed. --Daily Pennsylvanian...
...football schedules and unheavals in Blue coaching personnel, Dr. Stevens put himself on record as favoring "any system of endowment which would make Yale football a sport instead of a business." Athletics, in his opinion, is as integral a part of any university's educational program as its classroom lectures, and the coaches should enjoy the same security as the college faculty, with similar provisions for retirement...
...classroom I learn grammar, but such expressions as "nerts," "baloney," "horse feathers" and "son of the gun" were contributed by my American boy friends...