Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waxed within him. In the early 1920s, when he was teaching other young sprouts at Den Helder, his favorite lecture was on the coming war between the U.S. and Japan. "When?" his students would ask him, and he would boom: "In this generation." Then he would stride to a blackboard map and chalk three Xs- on Pearl Harbor, the Panama Canal, San Francisco. "There," he would say, "the attacks will fall...
Short, jut-jawed, gimlet-eyed, Professor Berdan always marches into class with a huge armful of books. Flinging them down, he scrawls an almost unintelligible message on the blackboard (e.g., "Vivify by range of appeal"), then proceeds, with illustrations and gestures, to make his meaning clear to the dullest students. To nip stilted, labored styles in the bud, he opens each year's course by shouting fiercely, "The less work you do in this course, the better." Students like to mimic his lecturing methods. Once, at a Yale Lit dinner, a student representing Professor Berdan came in with...
...lost Prall, the Mathematics department lost Graustein and Coolidge. Stone or Walsh may take over. Walsh's lectures are extraordinarily good, and he is also well worth knowing, and very interested in his students. Both the Birkoffs, though fine mathematicians, are bad teachers, with carelesely organized lectures, and exasperating blackboard technique. As to Stone, he is well liked in his advanced course...
...dull to be controversial, Ec 1 is a sprightly study in confusion. Discussion is lively and disorderly; agricultural tractors are freely converted into printing presses; and everybody catches on just in time to earn the expected A or B. Anchored only to the graphs on the blackboard, Ec 1 floats freely in the realm of abstractions. If, as must be supposed, the course was intended to furnish a solid theoretical basis for the study of applied economics, it can only be regarded as a pleasant but thorough failure...
...historical perspective, the economic doctrines, as milestones in capitalistic development, assume a fuller meaning than they possess on the blackboard. In the chaos of the vacuum, they provide, indeed, the celebrated "principles"--which the bewildered student drops one by one as he enters the labyrinth of real-life economics...