Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held in affection among his colleagues and by graduate students, Professor Coolidge was not "popular" among undergraduates. Respected he was, yes, but not "popular". Too much of a scholar to play the demagogue; too serious in his purpose to provide sideshows; too busy in his cause to display the classroom antics whereof "traditions" are made, too sincere to curry favor, his loss is the greater...
Jewesses no less than Jews were barred from their classes by the bullying Christians. Many a Jewess wept openly, lamented loudly. Several Jews, goaded, but outnumbered, sought to dash rabbit-like in at an unguarded classroom door. Chased, they were collared, hoisted by trouser-seats, ejected from the University buildings. Two professors who sought to rescue them were pummeled, severely bruised...
Early last summer the Division of Anthropology began to study films sent to the Museum by the Pathe Exchange, to determine whether the material was suitable for classroom use. From films such as "Nanook" for example, it was found that valuable illustrative material dealing with the physical types and customs of the Eskimos could be gained...
...year ago Dr. Emil Altman, chief medical examiner of the Board of Education, was called to see whether Miss Byrne was capable of teaching. After examining her with care, he stated that she was suffering from a "paranoid form of psychosis." At this, Mary Byrne was removed from her classroom, given odd jobs to do in the Training School Library so that she could earn her salary of $3,700 a year, while the Board of Education investigated her case...
Fortunately Harvard undergraduates are not forced to take Anglo-Saxon. As noted above, however, those concentrating in English and attempting to secure highest honors in that field are faced with the restrictive option of either learning the language by extra-classroom methods or enrolling in that course which of all courses hold least attraction for the average man, interested in English literature though he may be--Beginning Anglo-Saxon. The result is that often even an illusory hope of a Summa is crushed in its natal travail: a half year spent in the acquisition of a tongue which...