Word: extents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since William Whiting "the Widow" Nolen '84 started his Manter Hall School in 1886, the extent and influence of the tutoring schools have gradually grown. According to the Student Council report, they have "grown out of their proper place" to a degree unique in American universities...
...possible that the Council report has erred in this direction. More likely than not, there will be coaching difficulties, for coaches must live by their intercollegiate reputations, and perhaps only a few will be willing to inter themselves at Harvard. Moreover, the system depends to a considerable extent upon a Yale that is agreeable to cooperation and ready to complement it with a similar set-up. Yet such objections do not invalidate the idea; and if this is accepted in its essence it can develop only with time. Provided the journey is made relentlessly but gradually and cautiously, the difficulties...
...what extent are these functions of art instruction given place in our curricula and in our class-room methods? Only too frequently works of art are presented to students as aesthetic fragments torn from, their context in the lives, the ideas, the social habits, the cultural practices which produced them--very much as works of art are presented in a museum. This procedure, often necessary for the investigator-scholar, is a great disadvantage to the general student of art. His ignorance of the circumstances in which a great picture was painted, or a building constructed, not only limits the range...
...extent of M.G.M.'s invasion of the collegiate field in its search for talent is not known, but it is believed that this University does not enjoy a monopoly of the opportunities...
...musical influence goes, every trumpet player in the country copies Louis to some extent. The best "solo" Harry James ever played, "Just a Mood" was lifted note for note from one of the old Louis records. Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, and the whole crowd not only copy his ideas, but try unsuccessfully to imitate his phrasing, the secret of Louis' greatness. Father Hines learned some of it from him and started the "trumpet" style piano from which present piano-men get their ideas. Louis can take three notes and make them mean more than fifty by anybody else. The reasons...