Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in two months, C. T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, conducted his classes yesterday. Professor Copeland has been absent from the classroom for two months because of an illness followed by a minor operation. Severel weeks ago he returned from Phillips House, Boston, to his rooms in Hollis Hall. Since that time he has been recuperating in Cambridge, but has not been active in his regular college work. From now until the end of the present school year, he intends to continue teaching his English classes...
...high academic standing will be permitted to give up classroom attendance to concentrate on individual study supervised by faculty members. This plan largely parallels the tutorial system in force at Harvard, and has as its aim the establishment of a more thorough and deliberate college course, with no sudden and bewildering transitions from class to class. It is significant that more than half the endowment will go for the improvement of the instruction of the freshman year...
...Yale, high stand men are gradually being given these privileges in the form of release from routine classroom work where the individual can profit from it. Harvard has just announced its policy of cutting down the amount of classroom teaching from the Christmas recess to the Mid-year examinations and of omitting it entirely in many courses for nearly the last month before the final exams. This advanced step at Harvard will be tried out at first only by those departments and divisions whose instructors are favorable to the idea. And it will not be applied to the Freshman Class...
...advantages of the plan to the undergraduates are great. The mechanical routine of classroom work just before the examinations will be done away with while allowing the student time for writing theses and for reviewing courses, which, under the present schedule, are slighted. More responsibility is thrown on the individual which makes for self education and after all, the more a student can learn for himself the better will be his preparation for life. --The Dartmouth...
...outlined, the method provides for a cessation of classroom activity for two and a half week prior to mid year examinations and a discontinuance of pedagogical work during a three and a half week period preceding finals in June. Neither students nor instructors may leave the campus during these periods without permission...