Word: classrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year the professor received his money back, with deductions for bad behavior--such, for instance, as coming late to class, or skipping a chapter, or failing to finish the course within the time agreed upon. Throughout the year, he was required to sweep the classroom and keep its windows mended...
...Grover stimulates and inspires student creativeness, is easily interrupted within the classroom and easily buttonholed without. He has spread his doctrine of book love so thoroughly that not only the campus but the entire community has become book-minded...
...ability to answer occasional questions on material he has been assigned to study himself. The student needs the teacher's help, not when he has learned or failed to learn his assignment, but during the process of learning. Under the recitation system as practiced in most colleges the classroom becomes a sort of criminal court where the teacher--as judge, prosecutor, and detective--attempts to find out, often unsuccessfully, whether or not the student has mastered his lesson, and the student is mainly interested in creating a good impression, by bluffing or otherwise...
...terms of the Fund makes the course available without charge to men who satisfy the Faculty that their experience will qualify them to carry the work required. The classroom discussions, based upon actual cases dealing with investigations for refinancing, determination of profits, and with interpretations of annual reports and financial statements, should be of interest to public accountants; treasurers, comptrollers or accountants in charge of commercial or industrial conerns; to credit men, or to investment bankers...
...type of teacher, rather than lecturer, as exemplified in Harvard's own tradition by such men as Agassiz, Norton and Wendell has been lost in the present large system. The time of stimulating discussions between student and professor in the classroom is a thing of the past...