Word: attendants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday, members of the Music Department will conduct the group on a tour of the music building and will answer questions about music at the University. John M. Ward, professor of Music and Chairman of the Department, hopes that the visitors will also be able to attend a special rehearsal of the Bach Society Orchestra Saturday...
Students in French A, French C, and German A attend class four times per week, the additional hour being devoted to practice in pronunciation in the language lab. The homework load is cut proportionally. At other colleges using the direct method, elementary languages are often run eight hours per week, in order to teach a new tongue more effectively and speedily...
This year for the first time a few lecture courses, with enrollments of 20-40 girls, have been instituted, and every sophomore and junior is required to attend one of these. The rationale for the modification is that some students will benefit more from a lecture than from the small classes that form the mainstay of the system. An expansion program which will result in the addition of 150 students without a corresponding growth in faculty threatens to force continuing deemphasis of small classes...
...those who break school regulations there is the unwelcome institution of the Council warning. If a girl fails, for example, to attend a House meeting--there are no sororities at Sarah Lawrence--the House president may recommend that she receive a Council warning, making her liable for one hour's "service" to the college. This service can take any of several forms; she may work in the library for an hour or perhaps wait on tables. Emphasis is placed on the flexibility of punitive measures. Each case, Council members claim, is treated individually without regard to precedent--another instance...
Even the conservative, exceptionally wealthy, neighboring town of Bronxville seems to have been won over to the college. Town-gown relations, tenuous at time in the past, are better now partly due to Sarah Lawrence's sharing of its auditorium and frequent invitations to Westchester residents to attend theatrical performances and other college events...