Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were received yesterday at Princeton when Nelson A. Rockefeller and Bernard K. Schaefer, President of the Colombia-America Chamber of Commerce, accepted for the Latin-American table; and when Dr. B. M. Little, Regional Director of the Social Security Board, and Dr. William Waller, Assistant Surgeon-General, United States Public Health Service indicated they would participate in the discussion at the social security table...
...permitted for a gentleman to admire, nor the ability to employ correct terminology in describing one's aesthetic experiences, but rather that synthesis of knowing, of intuition, of critical awareness, which becomes part of one's permanent equipment in dealing not only with aesthetic experience but with experience in general. Many teachers who have worked with young people during these later years will recognize that I am not describing a mythical individual. The student of today desires the rich personal satisfactions which works of art can give, but he desires something further. He feels, often unconsciously, the need for establishing...
...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 of "enjoyment" it can bring him, but falsifies his whole notion of the basic relationships between art and society in all times, including the present...
Those who heard Dr. Charles A. Prosser's lecture on "Secondary Education and Life" last night will be forced to reconsider what they mean by "education." "Nothing could be more certain," he said, "than that science has proven false the doctrine of general education and its fundamental theory that memory or imagination or the reason or the will can be trained as a power." What Dr. Prosser would substitute is "specific education" for the secondary schools, and under this vocationalism he would add to the curriculum such subjects as practice in the use of English as "a tool of communication...
...believe that Louis has forgotten how to play the marvelous horn he used to, that he no longer does anything but blow high C's; the reason for this misapprehension is that in general Louis isn't playing as great jazz as he was ten years ago--for the very good reason that he was just about making jazz at the time and peaks like that are impossible to stay on. Now the critics listen to him and compare him to his greatest period and say that it isn't as good. Of course not--but despite occasional of-nights...