Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur R. Reis, Jr., Princeton '39, declared in summing up the discussions at the Latin-American table that closer cultural ties must be established with South America. As chairman of the International Trade Table, D. A. Schmechel, Yale '40, stressed the importance of the Hull trade agreement program coupled with economic sanctions against aggressors, as a move for world peace...
This is indeed a happy thought. Let it be said that such a statement, however nobly conceived, is merely a reflection of ignorance; no one can get very far in "one or two afternoons." He must work for months, years, to perfect the difficult techniques involved in tennis and squash. The report might as well have said that one or tow lessons with a good piano teacher will make musicians...
Some of the most flagrant violations of ethical tutoring here at Harvard arise from commercialization. Granted that these practices amount to cheating, the worst kind of cut-throat competition among the tutors results in making these ever more dubious. Each tutor must go his rival one better...
Finally, the attempts to make this kind of cheating morally acceptable must be violently deplored. Much of the advertising has been directed toward this. Advertising in preparatory school papers, advertising aimed at parents, advertising about cures for maladjustment--all these try to make the business respectable. Freshmen are hard hit by a barrage of high-pressure propaganda from their day of entrance. Tutors, who now give cocktail parties, are even trying to make themselves social institutions. Their goal is to place a premium on indolence...
...being unable to see the piano; after all, most good pianists can play blindfolded with very little practice. And since Templeton has spent his entire life in darkness, he has developed a very sensitive touch that enables him to overcome this mechanical handicap. But what undoubtedly must have bothered him is the lack of visual perception of life around him. All musicians, whether they play swing or classical music, draw their inspiration from things that happen to them in life, that they can see and comprehend. All of the natural beauties available to most human beings are thus denied...