Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, myopic little Dmitri Shostakovich marched to the platform. He knew his lines well: he had been bawled out before. Said he: "I accept the Central Committee's decree, particularly regarding myself, as stern but fatherly care. ... A worthy reply . . . may be achieved by work-stubborn, creative, joyous work ... on new compositions which will find a path to the heart of the Soviet people." Shostakovich was the last to recant; now all Soviet composers could go on with their joyous labors...
Instead, the school system became as bad as the town. Schoolkids between classes began joking about the latest graft scandals, and enrollments dropped from 14,000 twelve years ago to 4,200. Two years ago, the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools dropped Hamtramck from its accredited list...
This brings me back to the central problem of teaching method and organization of the College. As I said yesterday, the tutorial idea seemed to be one of the best answers. The reason I say this is that it offers under the present system the only opportunity for real intellectual exchange and personal relation between teacher and student. The difficulty of the system is its expense. The question then is, are the available instructors being used to best advantage? I think they are not and what I suggest for consideration as a substitute is the seminar system, particularly as used...
...discussion of educational policy. That there are large issues concerned in the question of compulsory hour exams is certainly true. Aspects of the value of any examinations, of frequent tests versus one per term, of the possible substitution of papers or seminars are all important. But they are not central to the specific point under discussion...
...July, the telephone company hopes to have a new central office in operation, to be designated either "University" or a second branch of the present "Eliot" exchange. At that time, the large back-log will be served as quickly as the speed of installation permits...