Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disinterested hands, with sources carefully identified.'' The editorial ended by stating that "newspaperdom, or that part of it which is conscientiously devoted to independent action that the people may know all, would greatly rejoice if President Butler would put the key into the door of this particular classroom and turn it for all time...
...stadium overshadows the classroom . . . athletics have a dollar sign in front of them. . . . Scholarship has been pushed aside and dwarfed. . . . Menace to our whole American educational system. . . . Not vague theories ... I have personal knowledge . . . something radically and fundamentally wrong...
Here, the instructors hand out a long lesson and the Plebe must teach himself, for when he gets to class he is expected more to recite and less to be instructed. More than three-fourths of classroom work is recitation. This requires a new method of study. That is what makes Plebe year so hard, not the number of subjects but the acquiring of the new way of learning. The main cause of men failing in a course is because they have not learned how to study...
John A. Haeseler '23 was in charge of the Photography, Mr. Haeseler, who is Director of the University life from athletic field to classroom, this film was in great demand by Harvard Clubs throughout the country, most of which wished to keep their members in touch with the University. During the past year it was shown at over 50 Harvard Clubs, and gathering of graduates. One print of the film went as far the Argentine, and still author to the Yenching Institute in China...
...interview with Frazier Hunt in the current "Cosmopolitan" the Chief Justice returns to his theme. "The emphasis in college life is wrong", he insists. And he proceeds to expatiate on the submergence of scholarship in extra-curricula activities and especially athletics. "The stadium," he says, "overshadows the classroom--athletics have a dollar sign in front of them...