Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock yesterday afternoon in Emerson D, George H. Chase '96, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, opened the first of the scheduled radio broadcasts of classroom lectures with a short introductory speech...
First of the scheduled radio broadcasts of classroom lectures will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, with an address on "Dante" by George B. Weston, associte professor of Romance Languages. This inaugurates a pioneer experiment in the international broadcasting of regular University lectures...
Experimental international broadcasting of classroom lectures will be inaugurated here on February 17, and if the undertaking proves successful it will be continued during the coming academic years...
...classroom broadcasts are expected to include lectures in the fields of Literature, Music, Philosophy, Government, Economics, History, and some of the Sciences. Lectures delivered in class in the morning will not be put on the air immediately, but will be recorded and broadcast later in the day at a time more convenient for most listeners...
Whether knowledge of the sort can be adequately imparted in classroom will, of course, be the ultimate test of the school's usefulness. Many, no doubt, will snort at the idea, but since it has never had a trial it deserves one. Incidentally, it should be noted that Mr. Littauer is one of those private benefactors whom it has been the policy of the New Deal to discourage and that the occasion and object of his munificence is the New Deal itself. Rather a handsome return for disfavors. --New York Herald Tribune...