Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Princetonians were definitely out-classed. Under Elliott Forbes the Glee Club sang works of composers ranging from the late Renaissance Claudin de Sermisy and the mid-Baroque Dietrich Buxtehude to the sardonic child of the Twenties, Francis Poulenc. Theirs was a full-bodied sound, with the kind of focus and control that was totally absent in the Princeton group. The latter has the same basic sensitivity, but they lack the sheen and polish that make the Harvard Glee Club so irresistible in spite of everything. Both groups suffered from the chronic ills of large choruses: slipping intonation, unbalanced voices, cheating...
What is likely to emerge from such discussions is simply a more widespread realization that the source of finances heavily determines the focus of research in the University--and that as a matter of educational philosophy, an increasing emphasis on government-oriented topics is somewhat lamentable and probably inevitable...
This line of attack on the History Department is not a new one. In the spring of 1966, 12 junior faculty members proposed major revisions in the tutorial program that would have shifted the program to a sharper focus on substantive historical questions. The tutors wanted to scrap the traditional sophomore tutorial (a survey of great historians from Herodotus on) and substitute a twoyear sequence in the student's particular field of interest. They also suggested that the department offer small conference courses on a carefully delineated historical problem as an alternative to the senior thesis...
...cent of a student's Honors grade, and this year the department is compounding its sins by reinstitutnig junior generals, which were wisely eliminated in 1961. Probably many students don't take the tests too seriously. But if junior generals do loom large to concentrators, the sharp focus of junior tutorial would be undermined, and the student's freedom to dabble with General Education would be restricted as he is forced to get ready to meet the requirement...
...focus of Ivy League attention stays with Dartmouth this week as the still undefeated Indians travel to New Haven. Just as last Saturday's Harvard-Dartmouth game was to be the definitive showdown for the League title, so today's Yale-Dartmouth contest has taken on winner-take-all proportions...