Word: classrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when, the sun having gone behind a cloud, the school-room's illumination falls below average intensity. In a special class for weak-eyed pupils in Jersey City, N. J., one Westinghouse installation geared to lamps giving an intensity of 30 footcandles* (four or five times the normal classroom light), has helped the handicapped students lift their work well above the standard of children in a neighboring, plain-style classroom. Similar results were obtained after an installation by Alabama Power Co. in Tuscumbia, Ala Ideal for the future and cheaper, urged Engineer Atwater, would be schoolhouses with no windows...
...when increasing emphasis is being put upon classroom studies at Harvard because of the House Plan and the recent depression, it is encouraging to see that educators also believe a great amount of learing can be acquired in less formal ways. During the college year there are innummerable economics groups, language conferences, special lecture chairs, and musicals which are not usually given their deserved place in education. But although they are often popularized by dilletantes, they add allure and culture to knowledge, and are in a great measure responsible for the atmosphere of learning that makes Harvard and Cambridge quietly...
...conquest of inferiority can cut two ways as N. E. A. discovered last week after its convention had disposed of its outside enemies. Still full of fight, the Association's "inferior" members (i. e. classroom teachers) uprose against its "superior" members (i. e. principals and superintendents) who have long controlled its organization. Flayed was the influence of State superintendents, life directors and past presidents who sit ex officio on the N. E. A. assembly. Cried one critic: "We don't have ex-Presidents in the Congress . . . and. thank God. we don't have ex-Mayors...
Five thousand persons watched various outdoor sports at West Point last Saturday but no one watched a dozen cadets and 13 Harvardmen hunched in a West Point classroom, engaged in an abstruse brain contest. The teams were to solve ten out of eleven problems posed by President Arnold Dresden of the Mathematical Association of America. The size of the teams did not matter-the side which produced the ten best sets of answers would win. First day the teams worked over such easy matters as how many times two integral calculi go into four differential calculi. They quit early...
Heidelberg's "University Hall," classroom building, was built by former U. S. students at the University, dedicated by onetime U. S. Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman in 1931. Its tablet, containing many a Jewish name, still stands. Moreover, foreign students, even Jewish ones, are still admissible at Heidelberg since they "cannot enter the German labor market...