Word: designate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Flagler decided to make St. Augustine into a tourist haven, the man he selected to design the Ponce de Leon course was Donald Ross. The son of a Scottish stonemason. Ross became the professional at the Dornoch course in his native town. A Harvard professor named Robert Wilson, who spent his summers in Dornoch and became enraptured with golf, persuaded him to emigrate to America. Ross arrived in Boston in 1898 with $2 in his pocket. He went on to design over 500 courses, many of which are among the outstanding tests of golf in the country...
...forever tempting to spend all of the time available for education reform reviewing the curriculum in search of a grand design, an eternal blueprint. But we must remember that there have been three great enduring advances in undergraduate education at Harvard during this century and none has been the result of curricular reform...
...acoustics are very good, and that is a triumph as well as a vindication for Acoustician Christopher Jaffe, 50. The problem with a circular design is that sound diffuses quickly, bounces around, losing clarity and focus. Jaffe, with the Boettcher architects, Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer Associates, has managed to create a lush, integral sound by using such devices as 106 acrylic "reflector" discs suspended from the ceiling and a huge vault below the stage. There are some minor, doubtless correctable difficulties. The bass is not quite rich enough. When Van Cliburn sat down on opening night to slam his way through...
Students in the Graduate School of Design (GSD) recently began working on the first issue of an all-student architectural journal to be published annually, beginning in June...
...sixth-graders at Houston's Luther Burbank elementary school, parents clamored successfully for their own afterschool classes. Louisiana State University is offering a full-time course in the medium for undergraduates. At North Adams, Mass., an institute sponsored by the Hoosuck Corporation, a nonprofit organization that promotes design-oriented manufacturing businesses, has just completed a two-week, $330 class in rudimentary technique; it was sold out. Another course in April will teach painting on glass; in June under Albinas Elskus, there will be a course in design. At the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, four-year students...