Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conducted honor courses, designed to aid the better students to progress by their own efforts, rather than keep pace with a slowmoving, stereotyped course of lectures and examinations. But this system has never been applied integrally. Even the most brilliant honor men have been compelled to take some prescribed classroom courses, and their degrees have differed in no way from those given to students who crammed their way through the final examinations by resort to tutoring schools...
Organized athletics came next in importance, with not only major and minor sports, but the time spent in athletic management or in competing for athletic management. The "recreation and leisure" section included exercise and sports such as golf and tennis, reading, not in preparation for classroom work, lectures and concerts, theatres and movies, card-playing, "parties", in the pre-Volstead sense, dances and social activities, informal discussions and that bugbear of the weeks before Tap Day, the "dope session," at which the undergraduate solemly argues Bill Jones's chance to be tapped last man for Skull and Bones, or whether...
...wonder then, if, when the bell in the old, white cupola of Harvard Hall tolls at the hour of 9, my fellow vagabonds may see me enter classroom 1 to hear Professor Gay lecture in Economics 2 on Transportation since 1860. Ordinarily this is not a matter of much moment to a vagabond, but today the problem of transportation is very close to my heart...
...everything which has been said previously," continues the report, "it becomes apparent how large a part residence in the Freshman Dormitories should play in laying the right foundation for the work of the student as an upperclassman. The dormitories are to the social side of college life what the classroom and lecture halls are to the academic side, and it is essential that these two aspects be complementary in order that the most complete benefits of college education be obtained. It is therefore the feeling of the committee that the majority of the men living outside the college dormitories...
...dormitories are to the social side of college life what the classroom and lecture halls are to the academic side...