Word: classwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classwork at boarding schools, he said, is lighter than in a public school, but teachers are also called on to take charge of dorms, coach sports, and run extra-curricular activities. "Our task is different from a day-school," Saltonstall added. "We have a big chance to share in the life of the kids, to extend them and experiment with teaching techniques...
...unwilling to "seek out the teacher," the situation is much more favorable in the University's extracurricular activities. During the fall, men in the Yard will be asked to join groups interested in everything from Chinese idols to Bulgarian chess. Individuality is an after-hours proposition, especially since classwork on the mass production level leaves little room for the personal slant. Mr. '50 will fiind in a College of 5500 men a least a handful who feel the same way about the Russians, or like back-handed Cribbage. It is in this group that he may lose his serial-number...
...class. They are given a starting bonus of one credit in physical education (because they've had G.I. exercise) and one-half unit in social science for having gone through Army or Navy indoctrination courses. The 39 now enrolled (ranks: private through captain) cram 30 hours of classwork and 30 hours of homework into each week, which will allow them to complete a year's schooling in twelve weeks...
Programs & Credits. Shrivenham's students are enrolled for eight weeks, a term approximating a summer session in the U.S. Ten percent of them are to be officers, 10% Negroes. The average program includes three hours of classwork a day, five days a week, and two hours of compulsory sports a week. Regular classwork will be supplemented with field trips and with lectures by visiting professors...
...statisticians of the American Radio Relay League Inc., he taught more people the essentials of radio than any engineering-school professor. Last year Ensor received his master's degree from Kansas State Teachers College, with an 80,000-word thesis on "Teaching Radio by Radio" having done his classwork at summer sessions...