Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defined academic freedom as the right of a scholar to seek the truth, discuss his subject, and offer conclusions through publication and classroom instruction. It also asserted that membership per so in any, political or religious group or adherence to any philosophical, political, or religious belief does not necessarily constitute grounds for dismissal or failure to rehire...
...Send the Man Away." At first, his institute was only a single bungalow. "Our front verandah served as classroom and laboratory, our back verandah as dining room and dairy." But the news of what was done there soon began to spread. The big, smiling "Padre Sahib" had turned barren and eroded acres into rich meadows of wheat. He taught the villagers how to plow and irrigate their crops. He set up a department of agricultural chemistry, and a home economics course for women...
...National Defense Research Committee, he was horrified at the scientific illiteracy around him. Some of his like-minded colleagues, like Chemist Harold Urey of the University of Chicago, decided to spread understanding by direct political lobbying. Conant felt that he should carry on his own crusade in the classroom...
...University of California's Waldemar Christian Westergaard, 67, authority on Scandinavian history (Denmark and Slesvig, 1848-1864; The First Triple Alliance). Plump, pleasant Professor Westergaard long ago gave up classroom seminars ("hard seats don't mean hard heads"), preferred to teach in his own library, smoking a four-foot-long Danish pipe...
...into the German army in World War I, was captured by the Russians, escaped to edit a newspaper in Peking, finally got to Michigan in 1929. Through 20 years' teaching Professor Price never got over the wonders of Shakespeare, could hardly read a line without striding about the classroom and thundering at his students: "It's beautiful...