Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more on teachers' minds than the President of the U. S. He had just signed a new NEA charter which democratized the board of directors by dropping from it the Association's 22 past presidents, mostly school superintendents and long a thorn to rebellious classroom teachers. And he had sent Chairman Floyd W. Reeves of his Advisory Committee on Education to tell the NEA just how good a friend of Education Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...uncounted millions of U. S. school children, uncounted thousands of classroom radios were tuned-in in four time zones one day last week to hear what bustling Commissioner John Ward Studebaker of the U. S. Office of Education had arranged as an "ideal commencement program." National Broadcasting contributed a network of some 50 stations. Purpose of this giant mass commencement was not to award diplomas but to hear four commencement speakers of a calibre that rural school boards could not hope to match. Commissioner Studebaker and Secretary of the Interior Ickes were piped through from Washington; Columbia University...
...Harvard Law School classroom a student asked Professor Warren A. Seavey if he did not believe that Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson would have soon been defeated had Chicago newspapers fearlessly exposed his tarnished regime. Replied Professor Seavey: "Well, everybody knows about Curley, and yet I'm afraid he's going to be elected Mayor of Boston next fall." Seated in the back of the room was first-year Law Student Leo Francis Curley, who after class approached Professor Seavey, received an immediate apology for the slur. Announced Massachusetts' onetime Democratic Governor...
...governor with Chicago's notorious Thompson was an analogy unintended to be malicious. There few men in the teaching profession so tactless and unaware of their position as to harass a living public name openly and directly, especially when the son of that name sits in their classroom...
...affair was not the first time that Lee had been in some classroom in which aspersions were cast on his father's honesty, it was also revealed. According to Edmund M. Morgan '02, Acting Dean of the Law School, no letter of resignation had been received from...