Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is unfortunate. It would seem as if the younger men in each Department could take over this work. They are gaining teaching experience at Harvard but are not yet capable of appearing on the lecture platform. The job of the professor would then be directed solely into its intended channel, that of telling his class about the fundamentals of his subject...
...Platforms in the suffragist platform are (1) that the college student of 21 has sufficient mentality to vote; (2) that his expression of opinion would exert a good influence; and (3) that such a measure would stimulate greater interest in public affairs...
...first step in preventing "a separation of our faculty into those who teach and those who carry on creative work," President Conant has sent out a questionnaire which asks each instructor how much time he spends with his tutees, how much on the lecture platform, and how much in the laboratory or research library...
Professor Packard's course in Public Speaking has the unique distinction of being one of the few "practical" courses given at Harvard. The main purpose of English 10a is simply to improve the students' delivery of addresses of all sorts and to give him actual platform experience and in this purpose the course is remarkably successful...
Each man gives five major speeches and several shorter ones. Basing their judgment on these speeches, the instructors criticize each man's way of speaking, his "platform manner", and the content and organization of his speech. Many a student learns for the first time that he talks too fast or that when on the rostrum he contorts his body to such a degree that his audience becomes quite dizzy in trying to follow both his actions and his speech...