Word: recitatione
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From the beginning he ruled out lecturing-a spoon-feeding system of teaching, he thought, which "was probably the worst scheme ever devised for imparting knowledge." The "quiz or recitation system," thought Holt, was little better. His own prescription: instead of ordinary classes, constant informal conferences, at which teachers and...
In 24 years, Holt never altered his methods, nor changed his ways. He was always the amiable autocrat who collected antiques, breakfasted in his four-poster bed (George Washington had slept there), was forever popping into classrooms to see how things were going. Last week, as he said farewell, he...
Deep Purple. Sometimes, enraged at a sloppy recitation, he would bang his heavy books together, jam them under his arm, and stalk out of the room in the middle of class. More often, he would turn purple, angrily adjust his eyeshade, or ferociously tap his forehead until his rage was...
Like many a Harvard tradition, Class Day's origin cannot be specifically dated, and its various features grew into fashion bit by bit over a considerable period of time. "We suspect that the origin of the literary exercises on Class Day," James Russell Lowell wrote in 1874, "may be traced...
Miss Dietrich, at her best, is a past mistress of sardonic comedy and of low-life glamor, and if this picture really handled what it pretends to, she could probably have done herself proud; instead, she is required to sing such pseudo-bitter cabaret ersatz as Black Market. Miss Arthur...