Word: schoolroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago the Supreme Court tossed a judicial bomb into many a U.S. schoolroom when it decided that it was unconstitutional for James Terry McCollum and his classmates in Champaign, Ill. to be exposed to religious instruction on public-school property (TIME, March 22, 1948). But the individualists of Vermont would not let some Washington lawyers tell them how to educate their children; the state board of education issued a routine notice of the decision, and nobody paid much attention...
...believe the one way to settle the problem of teacher shortage, teacher's salary and schoolroom shortage is starting a year-around work year for the teacher and a rotating system for the children...
...these distances may affect a reporter was described recently by a newspaperman in Northern Rhodesia. Said he: "It sometimes seems that the home office of every newspaper and news agency is equipped with schoolroom atlases which have maps of Africa neatly squeezed into one page. News editors look at the map, see Accra within six inches of Northern Rhodesia, and send off a breezy query...
...modern education] is too much on how and not why. Before I even took an education course'. . . I was all prepared to enjoy myself teaching the young boys and girls ... to ... raise them to an esthetic level in life, but now I am actually terrified to open a schoolroom window until I have been told in a textbook . . . how high it should be raised, for fear of giving some pupil a complex of some sort . . . JAMES MONAHAN La Salle...
...whisky before noon. On neighboring slopes, he planted some 75,000 trees. In 1892, in the Holy Grotto, as Joaquin called his writing room, he penned his best known poem, Columbus ("Sail on! Sail on! And on!") and got $50 for it. Later, when the poem had become a schoolroom staple, a W.C.T.U. member quizzed Joaquin on his inspiration. "Whisky, ma'am," said Joaquin...