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When I was attending Public School 45 in New York City, 20 years ago, the pupils hated and frequently expressed desires to kill some of the teachers. Common behavior of pupils: punching teachers in classroom or hallway, throwing board erasers at them, swearing at them with that inimical profanity of New York children...
...presiding over her classroom. But she heard the roar, of course, and the rat-a-tat of its machine guns. The Jerry must be raking the streets, she decided, and. as quickly as she could, she herded her class into a place which she considered comparatively safe near a hallway. In another classroom Headmaster Stevenson said briskly: "Under the desks, boys...
...Morals found expression in songs of fallen virtue (The Picture That Is Turned Toward the Wall) and tippling ("When you stumbled and fell in the hallway, I knew you'd been drinking again"). But with the turn of the century music publishers drew the line at ballads about sin. When Lyricist Arthur J. Lamb submitted A Bird in a Gilded Cage in 1900, Louis Bernstein refused to take it until the bird was changed from a kept woman into an old man's wife...
Formerly, Freshmen could line the hallway of Phillips Brooks House to watch with critical eyes the entrance of Wellesley newcomers, who had paid a 50 cent bus fare for the occasion. But this year Harvard men are going to prove that they are true gentlemen, as well as scholars, by submitting to the slight expense and the rigors of the 38-minute train ride...
...parsons attended lectures religiously, listened intently, made reams of notes during morning, afternoon and evening lectures. They studied their texts in bare dormitory rooms or argued heatedly in little knots in the hallway...