Word: facet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Another facet of the new methods now being employed here is the use of the "machine system" (tape recorders). "We are starting this in one of our elementary French courses," Frohock notes, "but we are far behind such colleges as Wesleyan and Columbia. They have many of these essential practice laboratories, we have only one which has just been started this year." Professors Henry Hatfield and Harry Levin are not quite so enthusiastic on the subject of tape recorders, the former remarking that "we haven't gone overboard on machines, but we are waiting to see how they work...
Offering his own definition of capitalism, he called it "the reliance on the pattern precipitated by the buying habits of the public as the basis for economic decision." He emphasized that "a fundamental facet of liberty is the right of people to conduct economic operations without interference...
Despite the somewhat musty forums, and occasional professorial disappointment at the level of knowledge of students, the school charitably offers to all without restriction the opportunity for two months of a Harvard education. As a dynamic facet of the University's design to educate wherever it can, the Summer School serves a vital purpose. In contrast to the noisy plan discussed two years ago of sponsoring a number of Harvard-like colleges throughout the U.S., the Summer School spreads its bit of veritas around quietly--though self-consciously--and in a quite successful, manner...
...Hindemith's stature as a teacher, composer, and musikwissen-schafter is by this time very well established and the performers Monday night did great justice to his work. In his studies, Hindemith became versed in, and was capable of writing solo works for a varied number of instruments--a facet that the Paine Hall concert well showed...
...explanation of this difference lies another facet of parent-school interdependence. The Newton board takes great care to send out to all parents in the community extensive reports of each of its meetings, and encourages parents to talk with teachers, principals, board members, and the Superintendent. "Anybody in this city can walk in the door and speak his peace," Harold Gores, Newton Superintendent of Schools, maintains. This encouraging of intimate, individual parent-school contact prevents a community from looking upon the school committee as a power structure that must be beaten down in order to have...