Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work at full efficiency, the lonophone requires a large horn, but even the table model is a remarkable improvement on conventional loudspeakers. It is sensitive, Klein says, to sound waves up to 400,000 cycles per second. (The average human ear can hear only about 16,000 cycles, and the average home loudspeaker does not work well above...
Dorchester's Woodrow Wilson High School was full of surprises last Wednesday night. A capacity crowd of five hundred people jammed the school auditorium to hear a lecture sponsored by the St. Gregory's Church Holy Name Society. This lecture received almost no advance publicity, but the speaker was to be ex-Communist, ex-managing editor of the Daily Worker, ex-McCarran Committee witness, Louis F. Budenz...
...Music is different from the other arts because it moves in time," G. Wallace Woodworth '24, Professor of Music, believes. "Sounds pass the listener with such rapidity that the only way to really become familiar with a piece of music is to hear it over and over again...
...Understanding and listening are sometimes two separate things," Woodworth says. "The whole idea behind the program" he adds "is to give those who go to or hear the concerts a period of rehearsed listening...
...really nice to hear football coaches, college presidents, and athletic directors all over the country loudly thumping their chests and singing the praises of football de-emphasis in a high falsetto voice. It's even nicer when they do something constructive about it. But it's awfully hard to evaluate a move like Yale's abolition of spring practice, which its sponsors say is a great symbol of de-emphasis, but which seems to bear little relation to the factors underlying the current scandalous football situation...