Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, mother of a hero, went to a convocation of school teachers at Toronto, Canada. After speaking of certain educational problems she concluded: ". . . The immediate cure, if I may suggest it, is to place the election of all school officials directly in the hands of the active classroom teacher." The New York World printed her words beneath the headline: MRS. LINDBERGH HAS IDEA...
College authorities who have deplored the over-emphasis on sport, which they largely attribute to the stimulus provided by competition and loyalty to alma mater, will now have a chance to see whether this same incentive applied to scholarship will act as an inspiration for better work in the classroom. We are a little skeptical but open-minded...
Cornelia Storrs Adair of Richmond, Va., first classroom teacher ever to be elected president of N. E. A., made backward delegates feel at home, bustled up to greet Harvard's Lowell, attended teas, smiled maternally for petulant photographers, said little for publication, was awarded an especially created degree, G. L. (Gracious Lady), by the Massachusetts Teachers' Federation. A mathematics master, Harry C. Barber of Philips-Exeter Academy, was elected to succeed Miss Adair as president at the next convention...
...Instructors in charge of courses shall discontinue lectures, or other classroom exercises conducted by the Intructor who is in charge of the course, during the interval between the Christmas recess (approximately two and a half weeks) and the midyear examination period, and during the interval between the second lecture period and the final examination period (approximately three and half weeks): but any Department or Division may designate courses to which this suspension of lectures or other classroom exercises shall not apply, and it shall in no case apply to courses regularly open to Freshmen. Furthermore, courses in which section-meetings...
...will deny the post-war necessity of limiting the number of students in the College, unfortunate as this restriction may be for those individuals who, having decided upon Harvard as the institution of their choice, are turned away. It is generally recognized that the war has overcrowded the classroom and lecture hall, and that universities and colleges throughout the country, have been forced to raise an admittance harrier in self-protection. Especially is this true of Harvard as a result of the rapidly increasing size of its Freshman classes since 1918. There must be some limit if students...