Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conant was the chief speaker of the morning. Touching only minutely on his recent suggestion to limit enrollment, he said that "for purposes of intellectual endeavor change is surely essential, but here expansion may not even be desirable...
...limit the consistency to vices...
...potentiometers (low-resistance voltmeters) is set to correspond to the coefficients of the equations to be solved. A second series is geared together in the ratio of squares, cubes and higher powers. All the roots of an eighth-degree equation can be obtained in a half hour with a limit of error not greater than one or two per cent...
Most symphonic conductors limit their public activity to conducting. It has been hinted that some are not good enough musicians to do anything else. A few, like the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the contemporary Jose Iturbi, have been even more famed as instrumental soloists than as orchestral maestros. Still fewer can, like Germany's Richard Strauss, combine the abilities of a brilliant conductor with those of an eminent composer. Burly, slope-shouldered Rumanian Georges Enesco, who replaced John Barbirolli last week as guest conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is probably the only famous musical figure...
When students participate in controversial issues, a minority group may tie the hands of the majority by unwise actions which compromise the organization as a whole, and limit the scope of its effectiveness and growth. It is to be hoped that Student Union "action" will be diverted into fields of intellectual leadership, with much intelligent, academic, and practical thinking applied to the problems of today...