Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fisher, 22, just out of the University of South Carolina, was like no teacher Bunk had ever heard of. In his green corduroy jacket, Mr. Fisher could pitch horseshoes and he could square-dance. But he also knew something about symphonies and poetry. On the walls of the classroom, he hung reproductions of paintings by artists Bunk did not know: Cezanne, Bellini, Rouault, Rousseau, Winslow Homer. And on the blackboard, he wrote things like "The best portion of a good man's life, according to Wordsworth, is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love...
...York State Supreme Court justice ordered the Buffalo school board to reinstate Teacher Eleanor Dushane, and give her $1,000 in back pay. Principal Charles J. Costello of Buffalo's East High had charged the fortyish schoolmarm with insubordination, subversive activity and inefficiency. Her real offense: posting a classroom notice of a lecture by PM Pundit Max Lerner...
...Economics still has the edge in classroom popularity. 2280 undergraduates fill classes on that subject, while Government, next-place contender in this division, draws a very close 2246. Things aren't quite so crowded in Bio-chemistry, where only 11 College students are enrolled, or in Indic Philology, which has one undergraduate signed for each of its three courses...
...perhaps the strangest of all meetings takes place each week in a neat, white stucco building on the Parochialstrasse. Here the 130 duly elected representatives of the people of Berlin-the "Stadtparlament" or City Assembly-convene in a third-floor room. Its straight rows of wooden benches suggest a classroom more than a parliament. But to the front, below grey curtains emblazoned with a huge emblem of the bear of Berlin, two large, raised benches rather suggest a courtroom...
...lower of these benches sit the assembly's presiding officers, behind and above them are the representatives of the four occupying powers. Perhaps the suggestion of both classroom and courtroom is apt. For here, Berlin's people are expected to learn the ways of democracy, and here the Big Four of World War II are supposed to sit in solemn judgment on their efforts. But, this week, it was difficult to tell who was judge, who the accused...