Word: detective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doors and cordially invite us to hear what they have to say. As the occupants of the room in Eliot House where one of these meetings was held, we should like to reassure any of your readers who may have been alarmed by your remarks that we could not detect the least bit of impoliteness on the part of these young men, and, beyond a spoken invitation to attend their meeting, no pressure was placed upon us to do so. As a matter of fact neither of us attended, but we were happy to make our rooms available...
...education should have only uniformity, but insisted that it could have diversity at the same time. "The time may conceivably come when a state or the Federal Government may jeopardize this concept," President Conant admits, but he goes on, "as far as secondary education is concerned, I do not detect any danger signals in that direction...
Playing the Franck F minor Quintet is bound to be risky. The work is so familiar to most chamber music enthusiasts that they can detect even the slightest mistakes. But Gregory Tucker and the Stradivarius Quartet gave a performance that came close to perfection in both technique and interpretation. The group wisely stressed the score's broad outlines, and lightly passed over some of its more distressing chromatic sections. The only real flaws were some late entrances by violinists Wolfe Wolfinsohn and Harry Kobialka, but these were fortunately infrequent...
Last fall the Boston School Committee unanimously approved a plan to train teachers to detect juvenile delinquency, or tendencies toward it, in grade school children. The teacher training course which will be given by the Boston Teachers College this fall is based on the method outlined in the Glueck book...
However, this is only half the job. The remaining problem of course is "how to detect early enough the danger signals of persistent maladapted behavior in order to cope with it before it becomes habitual." The Gluecks believe that the schools are the best place to attack this problem...