Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program is part of the general paring down of the College from its present 5000 students to a figure of 4300. Watson explained that deconversion can start at mid-term because 192 House residents are being graduated and no additional students are being admitted to the College...
Hindemith believes that composers are generally the best teachers of composition. "If you want to know how to design a bridge, you get an engineer to tell you." More than this, he thinks that composers should teach, not only as a means of support, but as a responsibility to future generations of musicians. "Since Bach," he says, "hardly any of the great composers have been outstanding teachers. Today, when there is a general lack of skill in the technique of composition, no composer should withdraw from teaching...
Moderator Harry T. Levin, professor of English, summed up the opinions of six panel speakers at last night's Idler drama forum as "general unanimity to the propsition that we need a College theater; how we can get it must be saved for another...
...Smith, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Brattle Theater Director Jerome T. Kilty '49, came to the defense of dramatic activity at Harvard. Kilty claimed University support and guidance a necessary factor but said he felt a separate dramatic department would detract from the regular general Harvard education...
...most startling work in the group, apart from aesthetic considerations, is his pen drawing, "The White General," dated 1919. Standing against a background of human misery and brutality, is an exact representation of the Nazi of World War H--complete with Storm Trooper helmet and swastika insignia. Grosz saw things very clearly 30 years...