Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrived in Boston, Davison had decided to have his chorus sing Brahms' German Requiem with the BSO. Monteux had never suggested such an ambitious choral piece, but Davison arranged to hire 60 members of the symphony for two performances of the work in April, 1925. He had planned to conduct these concerts himself, but at the last moment asked Koussevitzky to take his place, maintaining that although he liked to train choruses, he preferred to listen to the final performance...
...Charles) Grove Haines, 48, onetime professor of diplomatic history at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. While serving as a temporary State Department attaché in postwar Italy, Historian Haines had an idea: the young experts the U.S. and its allies need to conduct European affairs could best be trained on location. After winning over his Johns Hopkins superiors, Haines went back to Bologna with a detailed program, got Rector Felice Battaglia's offer of the use of all university facilities. U.S. donors agreed to underwrite the center's annual $200,000 cost...
...West European students (most of them on fellowships) and eight full-time professors, six of them European specialists. Standards will be high (passing grade: B), classes limited to ten or twelve students apiece, with heavy emphasis on original research into broad subjects, e.g., Governmental Structures for Conduct of Foreign Affairs, Administrative Law and Practice in Italy. Required for admission: a college degree, fluency in at least one European language, an outstanding academic record in the social sciences. Tuition...
...complaints about the conduct of men in the Library have just come to us. The first of these is that men make too much noise, talking aloud across the tables, and in other ways acting in a disturbing manner. Such men know well enough that the Library is not the place for loud talking; and nothing more than a word ought to be necessary to make them more careful in their behavior. Their actions have arisen from thoughtlessness more then anything else. No such pardonable carelessness, however, can be attributed to the there are not a few of them...
...report also says that the "sensitive student" does not enter polities or the public service, as he is discouraged by corruption, demagoguery, and the conduct of loyalty investigations...