Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving Mr. Siepmann a Harvard title, which will prove an open sesame in the circles in which he will move, the University made a tactical blunder. In these days of indirect propaganda, the coloring of news dispatches and radio programs is all-important: it has a cumulative effect upon the mental climate of the people. If Britain is successful in convincing the United States that it must step in and save the cause of world civilization, Harvard can boast of having contributed to that...
...fame has sprung from two sources--the great professors who have resided here and the teachers who have taught the numerous leaders it has sent into the world. There is no apparent connection between these two elements; students are painfully aware that "famous names" have only the most indirect influence upon them. Formerly Harvard's fame accrued more from the first source than from the second. Now, in its fourth century, its renown is maintained by the leaders in every walk of life who have been educated here...
...present policy will inevitably cause a substantial and Immediate damage to the educational effectiveness of the University. The damage is two-fold: direct and indirect. Directly, the policy injures the University by requiring it forthwith to dispense with the services of experienced teachers and to replace them with inexperienced teachers.... Indirectly, the policy injures the University by making it less attractive both to students and to younger teachers...
...random choice of almost any group of compositions, such as the program for the Sanders Theatre concert this week, is almost sure to reveal numerous influences of dance music, both direct and indirect. The last section of Debussy's "La Mer", for instance, employs the rhythms of jazz in an unmistakable fashion. But more interesting than this are the scherzo of the Beethoven Third Symphony and D'Indy's "Istar" Variations. These forms lead one to a consideration of an aspect of the relationship between popular art and "intellectual" music which bears on the whole development of the large conventional...
...article in the Mercury particularly charged that Harvard was using the Varsity Club and its facilities as an inducement to players and as an indirect subsidy to gridiron stars...