Sentences with phrase «into lecture halls»

Each year, students cram into lecture halls to take classes that won't get them any closer to a college degree — shelling out $ 1.5 billion to learn concepts they should've mastered in high school.

Audiences thronged the Chautauqua circuits to hear the colorful orators of the day on both sides of the controversy, and crowded into lecture halls for formal debates on such propositions as, «Resolved, That the earth and all life upon it are the result of evolution.»

Soon a beautiful middle - aged woman walks into the lecture hall.

When you go to the workshops, there's a, and I guess this is a new rule because I'm told from people that have been in there for awhile they didn't know about it but there's a rule that says you're not allowed to bring cell phones into the lecture hall and that if you're caught, if you have a cell phone that makes a noise, that dings, whatever, during RJon's, one of his presentations, you get fined $ 100 and you give to charity.

Not exact matches

Recognizing a need for family ministry and urban outreach, architects integrated parlors, lecture halls, sports facilities, locker rooms and classrooms into the church complex.

But for those who attend to the rational and moral defense of the West, not least in relation to Islam, what was said in that lecture hall and the responses to it will be pondered and debated long into the future.

Clips of James Bond movies are unlikely to find their way into science lecture halls, unless the teacher is Edgar Moctezuma and he's teaching about medicinal plants.

On an overcast afternoon in late April, physics professors and students crowded into a wood - paneled lecture hall at Columbia University for a talk by Nima Arkani - Hamed, a high - profile theorist visiting from the Institute for Advanced Study in nearby Princeton, N.J. With his dark, shoulder - length hair shoved behind his ears, Arkani - Hamed laid out the dual, seemingly contradictory implications of recent experimental results at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.

Sep. 5, 2013 — Vanderbilt University welcomed 98 new doctoral students into its scientific community last week during the fourth annual «Simple Beginnings» ceremony in a Light Hall lecture room packed with family members and other well - wishers.

Here's some of what Besson cuts into the action as Professor Norman lectures to the Sorbonne and Lucy gets a grip on what's happening: rapid - fire montages of wildlife rutting (the credits include a thanks to Howard Hall Productions for «Indian rhino mating»); a caveman inventing fire and sparking man's industrial creativity; and Lucy's namesake, the possible «missing link» between mankind and the ape world, kneeling by a stream and staring into the camera, as if to ask «Who are you people?»

One of the film's funniest sequences takes place in a lecture hall when Deanna confronts her fear of public speaking, in which McCarthy turns a common, everyday anxiety into something to laugh about.

Professor Mapp is an exceptional teacher who can transform a class discussion of 40 students in a large lecture hall into a conversation that feels as intimate as five friends sitting around a table.

As part of the large scale upgrade of the University's facilities, they decided to install a state of the art projection solution into their largest lecture theatre which also serves as an exhibition hall.

When you go into a college lecture hall of 300 how many different learning styles do you see?

Casino - oriented attendees at Casual Connect Tel Aviv packed lecture hall 2 at The Charles Bronfman Auditorium earlier this month to dive into everything casino — from sweeping overviews of the social casino industry to detail - oriented lectures on building apps to ways non-casino developers can break into the casino industry.

Since his inclusion in the 2010 Whitney Biennial — whose Sculpture Court he transformed into an installation that served as a communal gathering space for performances, social engagement, and meditation — Gates has become a near ubiquitous presence in museum exhibitions, biennials, and lecture halls throughout North America, Europe, and beyond, showing his sculpture, channeling African - American musical traditions, and preaching a gospel of ground - up urban revitalization.

As the little Dell, HP, and Sony logos in college lecture halls started to turn into little glowing - white Apples, it was already too late.

Cheap Chromebooks have made waves for putting touch support into sub - $ 300 laptops, where it's perfect for working in classrooms or taking notes in lecture halls, so this also seems like a design targeted at Chromebooks.

On 11th February, more than 200 students crammed into a 125 - person lecture hall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to listen to entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire speak about bitcoin.

After at least three long years of lectures, seminars, coursework, study and of course the intense preparations for exams, it may be tempting to vow never to enter into an exam hall ever again.