Word: classrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp contrast to the constrained classroom teachings of professors such as these, Professor Perry cited the dynamic personal dominance of the early lecturers in the German universities at which he studied for two years...
...Graduate School of Business Administration last year was compelled on account of restricted classroom facilities to limit the number to be admitted as first-year students to 300. This year, by scheduling 8 o'clock classes, three sections have been provided for and some 60 additional students have been admitted. Total registration for the school is at present 472 as compared with last year's final figures...
...ears of Mayor Hylan to make of him an almost national figure, the deficit is less than 8%. Detroit and Minneapolis are large centers lacking only 3% or so, Cleveland 2%. On the grand average, about one child in ten must join the overflow classes in basement or improvised classroom...
...common fallacy of the classroom that a lesson can be learned by a comprehensive knowledge of its salient features, without regard to the medium used for its expression. The movement of educational opinion away from former methods of studying by rote has helped to foster this abstract and general process of assimilation. In theory, the movement has been a good one since it was hitherto possible to parrot the word of the text with no knowledge of the lesson itself. But there are also distinct disadvantages which have led to a more careless interpretation of the subject matter involved...
...need frankly to recognize that the Sunday School has no future. It is doomed to grow weaker in its appeal to the rising generation. Youth is having a hard time in squaring what he has heard about religion in church with what he hears in the classroom...