Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most striking work of the evening was the Piano Sonata in G which received its first public performance by the composer, Paul Des Marais, instructor in music. The breadth of development in the opening movement is what impressed me first. Here is a modern composer who does not strip his form to its barest outlines. The piano is treated in almost orchestral terms, yielding in quick succession highly contrasting effects of sonority, dynamics, and range. The opening theme of the first movement is violent and harsh but it soon alternates with some warmly expressive passages that reminded me of Brahms...
...picture of Gropius by talking to the faculty. Since most of his supporters have left, the ones that remain will usually portray Hudnut as the misunderstood man, and Gropins as the unyielding genius. To the outside observer, there can be no real facts. Everything said by a professor or instructor is tainted with the bitter feelings of the quarrel...
Until now, if students were excused from classes for medical, athletic, or extra-curricular reasons, the excuses were automatically sent to the Registrar's office, and from there to the course instructor concerned. With the decentralization of the Dean's office to the Houses, a continuation of this system would have caused costly duplication of records...
Salade is a World War II Army flight instructor, married, and father of three. He lives east of Cloudersport...
...this mechanism, the execution part of the problem, which has raised the most constant furor. The complaints would not recur with such persistance if they were groundless. And, in fact, the courses in elementary French, German, and Spanish are little more than dull for student and instructor alike, a malaise traced to dogged adherence to the rules of grammar. Memorizing the order of verbs, pronouns and whatnot, lists of idioms, and verb forms may be necessary, but there is no need for the zealous stress currently laid on them. This process only dulls what ardor there is for learning, through...