Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These two editions have been published to satisfy the varying tastes of the book-buying public, and make the readings which Professor Copeland has collected during his connection with the University available for the classroom as well as for the library. The original edition of the Reader was not designed for classroom use, nor was it treated in an elaborate manner. In the new editions these requirements...
Princeton's Tiger slunk from its Jersey jungle up to the green field which is Gilmour Dobie's classroom at Cornell. Surly the Tiger sniffed the students; snarled, and slunk three times across the goal line. Facing the beast for the first time in 20 years, Cornell was shattered...
...scribble hastily. "Not the Grace Moore who sang in Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, in Hitchy-Koo, in Up in the Clouds?" It was that same pretty girl, native of Jellicoe, Tenn., one-time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried her to the top of the musical...
...trial seemed but a protracted formality. But it was of interest, outside the courtroom because this was the first time a superintendent of schools had ever been tried in Chicago. The charges were insubordination (refusing to replace teachers who worked in the executive offices and sometimes substituted in the classroom, with civil service clerks) and unpatriotism. Evidence adduced to prove the latter charge: "He refused to recommend to the School Board that the school children be permitted to donate small amounts of money for the purpose of reconditioning-the famous American battleship Old Ironsides. . . . He recommended history text books which...
...from replacing them with civil service (political) appointees. In court, the teacher-clerks had sent for Mr. McAndrew to explain to the judge the nature of their duties. Mr. McAndrew had complied, saying, yes, the duties of teacher-clerks are predominantly educational. They assist the school principals in supervising classroom work; they interview parents, help with home work, aid discipline and even, when needed, teach classes. Their positions used to be filled by civil service clerks but the latter were removed in 1909 precisely because the positions called for persons trained in the teaching profession. Mr. McAndrew's testimony...