Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because of its athletic opportunity, is nonetheless a serious scholar. A highly intelligent, sensitive man, he is the opposite of the typical big-time athlete. Even without his magnificent athletic prowess, he could stay at Villanova solely on the strength of his academic attributes. It is against the basic concept of amateurism to slight education for the sake of sport. Ron Delany's greatness should not be turned against...
Wolff's solution involves a number of techniques, the most important of which deals with an extension of the row idea. In Schoenberg and Webern only pitch is set in order. Now the concept of "total organization" puts other musical materials into a row: dynamics, time, tonecolor all have their own rows, frequently connected with one another...
Today's chaperonage rules are also in line with the Radcliffe concept of few regulations and great freedom. Three simple statements, buried on a little-perused page of the Student Handbook, require students to refrain from visiting a man's apartment without another girl, to procure the chaperonage of an older couple for a private party after 1 a.m., and to observe the parietal rules of men's dormitories. Whether or not these honor-system rules are actually obeyed seems to be a matter for dispute. Deans and students are disinclined to change them, however, claiming that the rules function...
...sitting in the woods in France reading Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, as many other German soldiers did, in a continuous state of exaltation. This was the final liberation from heteronomy. European nihilism carried Nietzsche's prophetic word that 'God is dead.' Well, the traditional concept of God was dead...
With a program so new, complications are prevalent and unavoidable. There is at this time no rapport between the College Board's concept of an advanced education in Romance Languages and the University's. Even in composition, seemingly an area definite enough to admit of clear-cut levels of attainment, the CEEB and Harvard are miles apart. This fall, students who had passed, even with honors, the composition (or "Language") portions of College Board Advanced Placement Tests in Romance Languages had absolutely no assurance of eventual Advanced Placement...