Word: classrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Citizen Roosevelt had no lust to gloat over the wintry country he was soon to rule. At his side sat little child-faced William Hartman Woodin, soon to be master of the greatest treasury in the world. At his side sat professorial Raymond Moley, raised from the classroom to the councils of the great, but they had few thoughts of pomp and circumstance. The ruthless pressure of events gave them time to consider but one hard fact: that in four days the bank deposits of twelve states had been seized by the frozen hand of Depression...
...first place, the quality of elementary instruction is adversely affected by the lack of practical classroom experience of most of these students. In the Mathematics departments several men in their second year of graduate work have been selected, and there are at present in Mathematics A some who have scarcely attained their majority. While it is true that these men may exceed most of their contemporaries in maturity and initiative, the stringent requirements for an advanced degree necessarily restrict the time at their disposal for teaching duties...
Topaze (RKO). Professor Auguste Topaze (John Barrymore) at the beginning of this picture, is a shabby and bedazzled pedagog, soberly extolling to the urchins in his classroom the virtues of a copy book philosophy. At the end of the picture he is a gay boulevardier. dressed in a depraved cutaway and accompanied by a mistress (Myrna Loy) whom he has stolen from a baron. The transformation starts when Topaze loses his job for punishing the baron's stupid son. It is completed when the baron (Reginald Mason) has made Topaze head of a fraudulent mineral water company...
...heavy emphasis is laid on the mechanical side of the work, it is also true that careful attention is given to the place of the Classics in literature. As far as I know, all courses, except the most elementary, assign reading of criticism and history like Duff and Croiset. Classroom lectures give as much supplementary matter as is necessary on the work read. It is thus not true that this side of the literature is neglected...
...George Whitney '07 who, in recommending the plan pointed out that the school facilities for constructive business training must be made available this winter as a substitute for the demoralizing effect o waiting of jobs. It is understood that students who attend the session will have the same classroom instruction under the regular faculty...