Word: classrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the initial sparkle of its September appearance only slightly diminished by four months of classroom application, the General Education Program has sprung at last from the pages of the Harvard Report to become an accepted college institution. The first major change in the elective system since President Lowell's regime, the new Program has passed its first test and starting next fall, will expand from its present nucleus of eight general courses, limited to Freshmen and Sophomores, to a comprehensive department, embracing many fields and open to all four classes...
Herself a product of progressive education, 58-year-old Director Taylor wants Shady Hill to be known as just a "good school" rather than a progressive one. She stresses the classics, teaches the three Rs, allows no classroom anarchy. But her theory is a progressive truism: "When learning becomes a drudgery, it usually ceases to be productive...
Presently the classroom began to fill. Eight legs of dark gray-flannel, one tweed-skirt, and five moving tongues completed Vag's row. He leaned back and looked around the room, his eyes following waving hands, his ears following friendly greetings, and his nose following the feminine scents wafting up and down the aisle...
...practice is always the teacher's dream, and Professor Allport recently demonstrated his skill at combining them by presenting a Social Relations 1a lecture on Crowd Psychology in terms of a revival meeting once held in Boston by the eminently practical Aimee Semple MacPherson. Even the professional resenters of classroom humor avowed it was better than the comics, but, unobtrusively, each step in Aimee's spellbinding was made to correspond to a formidable chunk of psychological verbiage...
...Washington, N.E.A.'s Executive Secretary Willard Givens called on teachers throughout the U.S. to organize "salary committees," and hit their school boards for general raises. It was a surprising change of front for N.E.A., which includes not only classroom teachers but school administrators...