Word: needing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thompson regards his teaching as a full-time operation and relegates composition to reading periods or else to his summer vacations in Gstaad, a quiet Swiss village. "I need absolute seclusion when I compose," says Thompson. "I have to work intensively before I can write music with ease, much as an athlete must get into shape before he can perform adequately. If I am interrupted at all, I have to start over again...
...neediest half of our nation's population. I would even wager that at no CSS college do as many as half of the dollars spent for scholarships go to students from the neediest half of our population." And this despite the financial aid revolution of determining stipends by need rather than merit...
...other hand, Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, stressed the need for making incoming "rote scholars" more adventurous. He had "mild reservations" however, about substituting seminars or tutorials for regular courses. These regular courses "may be just what the doctor ordered for Freshmen," he said...
...intellectual service that often accompanies the work student leaders do. Most of us agree that one goal of education is, in the happy phrase of Master Brower of Adams House, "a mind that speaks for itself." Perhaps we all forget once in a while that such a mind needs a forum in which to be heard, a platform on which to stand, or an audience to enlighten. In practical terms, this means that the enormous intellectual value of college drama would be lost to both actors and audience without the producers who don't walk out in the middle; that...
Naturally, this need increases as the world becomes more complicated. In a recent full-scale reevaluation of ROTC, two Dartmouth professors assert that with advancing technology, the concept of the trained reserve, hastily mobilized, citizen army is outmoded; the only realistic alternative now is a professional armed force in being, obviously necessitating good officers. Coupled with Professor Samuel Huntington's idea of officership as a profession, a policy of high-calibre training for college men to make them able officers becomes a necessity...