Word: apprenticeship
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...Because of the complex and painstaking nature of printing, student work takes the form of a sort of one-on-one apprenticeship with the Adams House tutor in charge of the press. Hulsey is working now under the mentorship of Katherine McCanless, a non-resident tutor in Adams House. McCanless is unabashedly passionate about the literature she loves to print and insists on working "from the text out." Her own recent projects include the printing of eleven lines from a new translation of 'Beowulf' by Seamus Heaney. McCanless has been delighted with the enthusiasm of her students, but laments that...
...world's a movie, and young men have their favorite characters in it. At first the infant, amidst his mewling and puking, finds time for admiring a DC superhero--Batman, Superman or another. Then, the whining schoolboy serves his apprenticeship to a star athlete. Only in adolescence, however, do maturing young men, be they lovers or soldiers, recognize the virtues of British secret agents...
...eastern scale, supposedly a mixture of Byzantine and Tartar influences, which, to the Western ear gives their carillons a haunting and unfamiliar sound. No one here is quite sure how to play them or what music they were cast for. Aara admits that it is only through a lengthy apprenticeship that one begins to recognize the bells as a playable instrument. Her performances hinge on improvisation and experience. Though she and the other ringers have gradually become adept in the bells' individual utterances, no tune as we know it will ever cross their lips...
...long term, I should like to hope (for example) that every freshman might enjoy a seminar course, and that our graduate students might enjoy more 'research apprenticeship' experiences (particularly in the humanities and social sciences)," he writes in an e-mail message...
Next only to Vermeer, De Hooch (rhymes with broke, not pooch) was the greatest Dutch genre artist of the 17th century. Very little is known about his life. He was born in Rotterdam in 1629. He learned painting by apprenticeship there, probably to Nicolaes Berchem. By 1655 his name shows up on the rolls of the artists' guild in Delft. There he must have known the slightly younger Johannes Vermeer. Five years later, he was working in Amsterdam. He married and had seven children. None of his letters survive, and no drawings either. In 1684 he died in a madhouse...