Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Samuel himself. He was a crisp and courtly figure, far from the "man of most dreadful appearance" Boswell wrote about, but he spoke in coffee-house prose, and like Johnson, he knew how to command attention. For more than 25 years, Chauncey Brewster Tinker's Yale classroom was one of the two or three most popular on campus...
...college paper, graduated cum laude in 1943. Said her class yearbook: "Deeply philosophical about the fundamentals of life ... an astute analytical mind lurks behind a baby face and emotional brown eyes." Judith joined the economic warfare section of the Department of Justice, rose fast enough to justify her classroom promise. Her job was analyzing the records of foreign agents registering for activities...
...Friday such subjects as: educational institutions' adjustment to progress, successful classroom practices, the responsibility of social education for the teaching of human relations, the implications of atomic energy for social education, and the implications of modern penology for social education will be reviewed...
...itself steadily in the direction of General Education. Particularly in the second half year, after trying in the first half year to lay down some fundamentals of composition, we have tried to teach writing in relation to the study of texts which we thought worth close discussion in the classroom. Theodore Morrison, Director of English...
...relentless prober, tough as a drill sergeant with philosophy students, a hollow-cheeked scholar who despised automobiles and movies (the only movie he ever saw was a documentary on the theory of relativity). But hundreds of students flocked to his classroom to join his lifelong search for truth. Where did the search lead him? This week, a year after his death, Morris Cohen gave his answer in the form of a posthumously published autobiography, A Dreamer's Journey (Beacon Press...