Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing, it dives into the melting pot business without fetching up an Irish-Jewish wedding. For another, it keeps itself, in this nervous age, as innocent of agitated movement as a stuffed porpoise. The entire second act, shunted in bodily from the vaudeville circuit, consists of a classroom scene, leaves the slight plot snoozing at practically the same complication it had reached when the curtain crept down on Act I. The audience was quick to appreciate that vaudeville interpolation. More than a series of dialect jokes is the picture of Life's graduating seniors entering the Freshman class...
Persons without children in school wondered what were the sentiments of people with children in school, who saw a despatch last week from Southshields, Eng., reporting that no girl or boy would be permitted to wear a finger ring in a Southshields classroom. Cause: a girl wore a ring to class, gazed at it, neglected her studies; other girls copied her; boys grimaced, whispered, copied...
...standard for the Harkness scholars is considerably higher than that for Rhodes scholars. A Rhodes scholar may be an undergraduate, and he is chosen chiefly for his qualities of leadership, both in the classroom and on the athletic field. On the other hand, a Harkness scholar must be a graduate of some British university, and although athletic ability and leadership in extra-curriculum activities are by no means disqualifications, the first considration is intellectual ability and originality...
...Modern Poetry" is so grand an achievement as to take its place in the rank of masterpieces of literary criticism, whose "Two figures of Earth" in a recent number of the Yale Review is stimulating in the vastness of its concept, in the directness of its approach. He spends classroom hours expounding the benefits to be derived from an accurate appreciation of Gray's use of he comma. The third class embraces such men as Bliss Perry, formerly editor of the "Atlantic", who in his fear of being less the scholar for being more the teacher does a forensic tightrope...
...About 80% are classroom teachers...